Creating a simple custom switch entity?

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Hello,

I’ve been having issues understanding whether I can create custom switches somehow that simply hold an on/off state.

A bit of context… To prevent that we overfeed our pets, I’d like to make something that when somebody in the house feeds a pet, they toggle a switch on a dashboard to indicate the pet was fed. Of course, at night an automation would reset these switches back to 0/off/no. It shouldn’t do anything special pertaining device interaction, just a simple persistent toggle switch on the dashboard.

But I’m having a hard time finding how to create what is essentially just a boolean entity that doesn’t belong to a device or anything.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

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Use a input_boolean for this
You can find it under helpers

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Thank you very much… it was so obvious! I feel stupid now haha :slight_smile: This is exactly what I wanted.

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There are no stupid questions

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