Is there a "Legacy Syntax" on entity domain for selectors? (add filter:)

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I was going in to tweak something else. I haven’t really messed with my yaml files in a while and noticed there were a few places where there is a note about a deprecated features in some of my blueprints and scripts. They’re all where it’s selecting an entity domain for selectors in the UI. My google skills failed me and I went back like 9 months and can’t find a breaking change there.

I’m trying to figure out how to fix it. I could just remove it but I like it showing only the wanted entities and want to fix it before it is removed.

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There was a change to the syntax. Edit your yaml.

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Thanks! Got it all cleaned up.

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It’s not immediately obvious and it’s not spelt out anywhere: the change one needs to make is simply to insert a “filter” key between “entity” and “domain”:

selector:
  entity:
    filter:   # <<< here
      domain: hue

It was made here: Add filter options to entity and device selectors by piitaya · Pull Request #15302 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub

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2 years ago this happened. Why are you pinging me about it now. I updated the docs for this 2 years ago and fixed the internal HA Blueprint samples in seperate PR’s.
I remember what happened.

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Because 2 years later this forum thread is the closest thing to a migration guide I could find via search (thanks!), yet even here or in the links you posted it doesn’t say explicitly what needs to be changed…

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Well then. Thanks for helping out the 0.1% of the installed base running 2YO versions and seeing this issue.

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You don’t need to run a 2 year old version to encounter this. There are loads of dated YAMLs all over the web, you know.

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Since it’s not an error, if it’s there, no one notices. It’s not really deprecated either, it’s just old valid syntax at this point.

Regardless, I meant it when I thanked you for fixing this.

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Thanks for adding this useful bit of information too, as here’s how this looks in VSCode (src):

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(Edit: I see that my initial comment was somehow made in reply to your post – for which I apologise.)