I have a lot of automations I would write if I could put a condition in NOT to run them if the entity was last changed by a human being (or changed by a human being within a time frame). Something like "turn the kitchen lights off at 10pm, but if someone just turned them on intentionally 10 minutes…

Context can determine if the change was made by the ui, an automation or the physical device: [image] State.context to UI automation Feature Requests This nugget was very useful, thank you! With this I can now differentiate the 3 ways a device’s state was changed. [Scree…

Its not a feature - and you’re also missing a BIG use case. (Which is where your monkey wrench is) Change state at the device. (Because in my setup I RARELY use the UI to do anything and it should be reserved for special cases and detecting the difference between UI and automation is meaningless …

Wouldn’t Home Assistant know the difference between pushing new state info to a device or polling and/or receiving a different state from said device? I agree that would be another extremely useful value for the attribute I mentioned - I totally forgot about manually changing the devices which is a…

Thanks a ton! This will be extremely handy. Are the context ids the entity name or some kind of unique id number of which particular device/entity/automation/user has triggered the state change?

It’s a unique identifier. See: Home Assistant Context | Home Assistant

Entity Attribute stating if state was last changed by UI or by Code/Automation

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anon11644107 April 3, 2023, 4:59pm 4

Context can determine if the change was made by the ui, an automation or the physical device: