Breaking changes and their impact == 25 million minutes a year

[petro]

@luma

Are there no alternatives? Can we, as members of a community around this project, come up with a better way to handle this?

What alternatives do we have? Take a look at this thread. A breaking change is occurring and the USERS on this forum came up with a solution prior to release:

Non-existent or "dummy" entities will now be reported in a warning message

Home Assistant has always silently ignored non-existent entities in automations and scripts. This behavior has allowed one to create automations containing so-called “dummy entities” that are quietly ignored by Home Assistant. For example, this data_template returns lock.door only if it’s unlocked otherwise it supplies the name of a non-existent entity called lock.nothing. service: lock.lock data_template: entity_id: > {% if is_state('lock.door', 'unlocked') %} …