Button entities in a "buttons" row don't become that button

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I have a button entity and if I put it into a buttons row of the Entities card, the resulting button doesn’t represent the button entity itself. Instead it creates a new button, and the default behavior of that is to open the entity detailed information for the button entity, instead of executing the entity’s tap_action.

Example, put this into the Entites card configuration UI:

type: entities
entities:
  - type: buttons
    entities:
      - entity: button.some_button_entity

I think I could work around this by setting the tap_action to trigger the tap_action from the button entity itself (I’m still working out how to do that), but it definitely seems like the buttons row should handle this for me.

Am I missing some configuration on the card that will make this work automatically?

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toggle is the default tap action, but some cards overwrite default to more-info if the provided entity cannot be toggled. There is no toggle action for button or input_button entities, so more-info is a reasonable fall back, based on the docs.

type: entities
entities:
  - type: buttons
    entities:
      - entity: button.some_button_entity
        name: Some Button
        tap_action:
          action: perform-action
          perform_action: button.press
          target:
            entity_id: button.some_button_entity
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Awesome, thanks for the explanation! And that example is exactly what I was trying to put together for the workaround!

What would be the best path for me to suggest changing this with a feature request for HA? It seems like the user’s intent by providing a button entity in this row is pretty clear, so it’d be great if they didn’t need to re-set-up the action for each usage like this.

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