Context Username

Feature Requests
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I wanted to be able to display the user/person who disarmed the house alarm or opened the garage door. Upon searching through the documentation realised that this didn’t seem possible.

So I turned to the community forums next and after a bit of time stumbled across the following post:

Seems as though I wasn’t the only one with this idea. I came up with a workaround utilising the variables the user_id available as part of context.

However, would it be possible to also include username as part of context? I understand that from the backend all that’s required to link events is an id but for those wanting to use that information for notifications it would be nice if a human readable option was available.

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This would make a lot of automations much cooler for those of us with several users interacting with the system.

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This is possible, just lookup the id with your person entities

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Thank you for your reply @ludeeus, would you be able to expand on your suggestion and provide an example?

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Looking for the same as @cryptelli.

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@ludeeus Would you expand on how to look up the person entities? This would be such a cool feature, to be able to personalise responses dependant on who changed the state of an entity. Thanks

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Also found here and in several other posts:

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great @ludeeus , but how a get this information back? there is a way to log it? how?