Automation/Scripts categories and subcategories

Feature Requests
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One good feature for HA is to allow us to create categories and subcategories for our automations and scripts. I have a huge number of automations and it is very difficult to manage them.

I tried to use automation directory with sub-directories for the subcategories and create one yaml file for each automation but each time i want to amend/test something or create a new automation/script i have to restart HA and this is not useful for me.

This is just one suggestion for future development.

Thanks a lot for the GOOD WORK

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I have the same, so what I do as workaround is tag them with [CAT-NR] and to have the sorted alphabetically but also easily see which automations belong together etc. It helps a bit, But I’d love to have a seperate tag or categorise function so I can also filter on them etc.

Make sure you also vote for your own FR. @axydas

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Came for the same suggestion.

Automatons is something that really grows with the time, and nowadays, having like 150 automation, is really hard sometime to find a specific one that I want to tweak/modify.

Would me nice to have a way to group categories in different folders and subfolders :slight_smile:

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You don’t need to restart HA for automation changes:

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I have voted though — I also use a directory structure and one YAML file per automation, and categorise them via the start of the automation name:

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…and assign them to areas:

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…but a proper tag system would still be useful.

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yes i used exactly the same concept. I have more than 200 automations. Thanks for the help regarding yaml reloading. I never realized that i can do that. Thanks

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