What I want to do is for each person I want an attribute “Is Up” which tells me if a person has got up each day. I will use logic like they turn the bedroom light on to decide that they are up, and it then allows me to automate further things like the heating. Is Up is the first example - I’d like to add and automate more, e.g. Has Gone To Bed, or record if it is a school day for them.
I know I could create a Helper for each person to record this value, but a helper will show on the lovelace UI, and I don’t want to pollute that with tens of new variables. What I ideally want is something like the extra_state_variables on an entity, but which I can use for whatever I want. I can set and get anything I like on extra_state_variables in the developer UI, but I can’t see a service for it.
Am I just missing something? Is there already a way to have a flexible user defined attribute against an entity like Person?
Thanks
Martin