There are automatic groups like group.all_devices, group.all_lights, and group.all_switches. How are these generated programatically? I’ve been looking at https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/light/init.py for awhile, but I can’t see how it build them. I do see references to group.all_lights, but wasn’t sure how it was created.
I actually found it as I was finishing writing it up:
- this creates a new EntityComponent https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/a4b8c3cab0b3e3a7613924492535c13cd39d3114/homeassistant/components/light/init.py#L170-L173
- EntityComponent is the thing that manages groups (the last arg is a group name): https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/a4b8c3cab0b3e3a7613924492535c13cd39d3114/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py
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