Counts the lights on

Configuration
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I asked Airyphyla :wink:

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That goes in the template section of configuration.yaml

when placed into configuration.yaml, it should look like this:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: current_lights_on
        friendly_name: Lights at this moment
        unit_of_measurement: 'on'
        state: "{{ states.light | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | rejectattr('attributes.is_hue_group') | list | count }}"
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Note to myself: stop answering while in a semi boring Teams meeting :wink:

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this is how i’ve got it setup in config.yaml, when i paste your example it wont let me save because i’ve got template: as duplicate showing up.

#templates

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: current_lights_on
        friendly_name: Lights at this moment
        unit_of_measurement: 'on'
        state: "{{ states.light | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | rejectattr('attributes.is_hue_group') | list | count }}"
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Hi Taras. Have come accross this one and would like a advise on how to remove a number of lightgroups in the counting.

It works if I put in this

value_template: >
          {% set reject = ['ganglightgroup','gang_dor_lamper'] %}
          {{ states.light | rejectattr('object_id', 'in', reject) | selectattr('state','eq','on') | list | length }}

however i have a number of light.groups ending on “lightgroup” or “_lamper”.

I have tried several versions of a code like this one, however can not make it work. It is like it will not accept a wildchar at all.

value_template: >
          {% set reject = ['*lightgroup','*_lamper'] %}
          {{ states.light | rejectattr('object_id', 'in', reject) | selectattr('state','eq','on') | list | length }}

I could make it by including all the groups, one by one. However I will make some error in this over time.

Any idea?

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reject entities that contain the attribute ‘entity_id’

| rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined')
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Works perfectly, very nice solution. Would not have come up with it my self. Thanks.

If others look for this later, the full template looks like this

    count_lights_on:
      friendly_name: "# Lights on"
      unit_of_measurement: 'on'
      value_template: "{{ states.light | selectattr('state','eq','on') | rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined') | list | length }}"
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Can You show how card yaml code looks like?
I try to do something similiar with more groups like persons, doors opened and other.

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Sorry for late replay. Does this answer your question?

The code below will give me this result. Note that I use templates for some of the button config
image

             - type: custom:button-card
                template: button_toggle
                entity: light.light_basement
                icon: mdi:home-floor-0
                action: toggle
                show_label: true
                label: |
                  [[[
                    if(states['sensor.lights_number_on_in_basement'].state == 1){
                      return states['sensor.lights_number_on_in_basement'].state + " light on"
                    }
                    return states['sensor.lights_number_on_in_basement'].state + " lights on"
                  ]]]

Code for buttom template

button_card_templates:
  button_default:
    color: '#4caf50'
    size: 25%
    state:
      - value: 'off'
        color: '#ff5252'
    styles:
      card:
        - border-radius: 5px
        - padding: 5%
        - font-size: 100%
  button_toggle:
    template: button_default
    show_state: false
    action: toggle
    hold_action:
      action: more-info
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Hi Guys.

I have this in Yaml file. It is reporting that 4 lights are on when in fact only 3 are. Is it including the light group? If so can that be excluded?

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      count_lights_on:
        friendly_name: "# Lights on"
        unit_of_measurement: "on"
        value_template: "{{ states.light | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | rejectattr('attributes.is_hue_group', 'eq', true) | list | count }}"
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To add other light groups than Hue:


            {{ states.light
              |rejectattr('attributes.is_hue_group', 'true')
              |rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined')
              |selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')
              |list
              |count
            }}

EDIT: 🥷 by RodgerDodger

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127

I use this from day 1 forwards…Works all the time

platform: template

sensors:
  taf_count_lights_on:
    friendly_name: Lights on (taf)
    icon_template: mdi:lightbulb-on-outline
    value_template: >
      {{ states.light
        | rejectattr('attributes.is_deconz_group', 'eq', true)
        | rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined')
        | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')
        | list | count }}
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Thanks, mate. I now have the correct number of lights showing. I could not get your example working but it gave me what I needed to get mine sorted.

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      count_lights_on:
        friendly_name: "# Lights on"
        unit_of_measurement: "on"
        value_template: "{{ states.light | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | rejectattr('attributes.is_hue_group', 'eq', true) | rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined') | list | count }}"
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Hi!

There is a way to use a wildcard to reject all the browser_mod light entities??

Now, i use something like this:

{% set filter = ['light.browser_mod_fc5f0259_d2d4d40a'] %}
{{ states.light | selectattr( 'state', 'eq', 'on') | rejectattr('entity_id', 'in', filter) | list | length }}

But, i would like to did it more auto.

Thx!

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rejectattr('object_id', 'search', '^browser_mod_')

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Thank u so much dude!

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Hi, it is possible to retrieve Device/Entity Name instead of ID?
I’m using the following code (found on this thread :slight_smile: ) but I can’t figure out how to modify the attribute :frowning:
{%- set search_state = 'on' %} {%- set ns = namespace(lights=[]) %} {%- for light in states.light | selectattr('state','eq', search_state) | rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined') %} {%- set ns.lights = ns.lights + [ light.entity_id ] %} {%- endfor %} {{ ns.lights }}

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Replace this with [ light.name ]

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Thanks! I was trying with “_” and “entity_name” :frowning: