How to display an entity as a toggleable switch?

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I use the wonderful auto-entities card to dynamically display the status of a dynamic sent of entities (for instance anything that has “battery” as an attribute). It works great.

I now have the following problem: I have entities in my custom domain (say, mydomain.hello and mydomain.world) that are generated programmatically outside of the HA UI. I would like to have a card where the state of these entities is displayed (so far this the same as the example of the batteries above), but in the form of a switch I can toggle to change the state from ‘on’ to ‘off’ and back.

So far I just get the state of the entity, but do not know how to make it changeable. Is this possible with that card?

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If you want to control them and they are not in the switch domain you are going to have to make template switches.

3

Thank you. I found https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/switch.template/ but it looks like this is a static configuration. Would you have an idea how to combine it with the dynamic nature of auto-entities?

4

Nope, you are going to have to create a template switch for each entity. You can then choose whether or not these new entities are displayed with the auto-entities card.

5

Thanks. And I guess that this is not something that can be built dynamically? In other words, the templates must be defined (hardcoded) in configuration.yaml ?