Seeing that more and more helpers are added (
), it would be great to be able to duplicate them, just like you can with automations.
I like this idea. Many times I need another helper, just like one I already made. Duplicate would allow me to just copy everything over, then just go in and change the name.
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My biggest pain with UI is to create Riemann sum integral sensors and multiple Utility Meters.
I need Integral sensor for every metered socket that report only current usage in watts. The only difference is a name of sensor and input.
I also like to have a Utility Meter for these sockets and I keep track of (hourly), daily, weekly, monthly and yearly energy consumption. This means that I have to create all these sensors one by on and every time choose the source sensor and tariffs again which is very time consuming.
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We either need an easy way to duplicate helpers in the UI…
or, go in the direction the rest of the software development world (which HA kind of is), and save all UI changes in editable config, so we can easily edit and duplicate the config yaml/json by hand without fear.
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Any update on this? This is really pain to create multiple helpers just changing room name
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After using helpers for a while, I find this totally underrated, i.e. now we can create template sensors as helpers but this is a pain to keep tidy if we don’t have any option to mass-edit these things.
+1 for duplication or storing them into an editable configuration
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This is actually a similar request to WTH is there no option to clone/duplicate helpers - and a really good one. It already has almost 60 votes combined. As automations get more and more complex, helper management is an absolute must to keep repetitive tasks to a limit.
Duplicating the input_select helper would be a great option. I use input_select for radio stations and it was very annoying to have to create one for all rooms.
The possibility to duplicate helpers would really save a lot of time
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+1 for copy helpers or edit it in a file after building it in the GUI.
+1 ! urgently need a way to duplicate helpers.
+1 This would made my life much more easy 
+1 This would help greatly with complex template helpers.
I have a underfloor heating system. So I have to make 20 helpers just for the temperature-template. Thats a bit anoying. I support this idea tu be able to duplicate helpers
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Actually template helpers are not saved in the GUI but in templates.yaml even if you used the GUI to create them. You can easily edit there, but I too need the feature for non-template helper entities. Like others I want the same set of inputs and buttons for every room in my flat.
This feature request has over 110 votes but still this feature has not landed in any new HA release for over 2 years. Given that the same topic has been in several other posts outside feature requests it is obvious that this is a major concern to many people that use HA on a daily basis. Just today I had to manually enter over 40 helpers again and had a look if this had made any progress but DUD … nope.
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Interestingly there seems to be a way after all. In the input_number documentation there are examples of adding them to config.yaml. Presumably we could create an e.g. helpers.yaml and include that. Only there is no documentation for yaml helper that I could find.
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hoping this feature will arrive soon.
+1