Is there a way to determine what integration an entity belongs to?

[pickupthepace (Ryan McGinty)]

I am trying to get a list of specific entities and it would be helpful to output the related integration associated with it. I can’t find any documentation on if this info is surfaced to the templating engine or not. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Ryan

[finity]

If you just want to know what integrations are associated with which entities that info is already listed in the entities section of the configuration menu.

If you need it to output that info to a sensor to display in lovelace then I’m not sure how you would do that.

[123 (Taras)]

If you’re trying to do this with a template, as far as I know, it’s not possible. An entity’s integration would need to be one of its attributes so that the template could access it (using the state_attr() function).

It’s for this very reason that I have manually added a custom attribute, called integration, to each entity. For more information, refer to this post:

Recommended ways to manage devices and entities names

I’m not an advocate of using an entity’s name to store metadata. In other words, I don’t recommend creating an entity name packed with its characteristics. sensor.manufacturer_model_identifier_color_size_location_bla_bla_etc When the time comes to select entities based on their characteristics, the resulting template can become quite messy. What I suggest is to add metadata as custom attributes to an entity. Simple add them to customize.yaml or via Configuration > Customizations. For example…

[pickupthepace (Ryan McGinty)]

For context, this is so I can get a list of unavailable entities, which I have, but I thought it would be nice to see the integration next to the entity because some are actually “offline” while others are because I’ve moved them from Smart Life to ESPHome. When doing large refactorings of my setup, it would be helpful to focus on those of a specific integration. While wishing, would be nice to be able to get the device ID and name assosciated with an entity too.

So, I really need to get the info that is in Home Assistant - this is not long term retention or anything like that where adding it as a custom attribute would be worth the time involved.

Thanks for the replies!

Ryan

[123 (Taras)]

@pickupthepace

I really need to get the info that is in Home Assistant

No can do. Add “integration” as a custom attribute or forget about it.

[nrutman]

This works for most integrations. Some (eg esphome) will give you the ??.

{% set ent = "sensor.mosquitto_broker_cpu_percent" %}
{%- set integ = device_attr(ent, 'identifiers')|list %}
Integration: {{ integ[0][0] if (integ|length) > 0 else '??' }}

[boheme61]

Here is “Something” to “work” on

{% set devices = states | map(attribute='entity_id') | map('device_id') | unique | reject('eq',None) | list %}
{%- set ns = namespace(integrations = []) %}
{%- for device in devices if device_attr(device, 'identifiers') %}
  {%- set ids = device_attr(device, 'identifiers') | list | first %}
  {%- if ids and ids | length == 2 %}
    {%- set integration, something_unique = ids %}
    {%- if integration not in ns.integrations %}
      {%- set ns.integrations = ns.integrations + [ integration ] %}
    {%- endif %}
  {%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{% for integration in ns.integrations %}
  {{integration}}:  {{integration_entities(integration)|list }}
{% endfor %}

Found it somewhere in here, don’t remember where or Who is to “credit”

But you might “find” a way to “re-compose” or iterate with another Template

PS: run it ones and store it in a “File” Use file-integration or something to iterate the “File”

OHH !, 4 years OLD Topic … i better “watch out” or open my eyes

[teskanoo]

@boheme61

Found it somewhere in here, don’t remember where or Who is to “credit”

That looks it came from here (found it by searching for ‘something_unique’ )

How to enumerate entities belonging to an integration?

I now use a Macro that employs a more up-to-date method that was provided by template master petro

Notice: A device may “belong” (be associated with) to more than one integration - this macro returns the name of the first found integration in the list of linked integrations

{# --------------------------------------------------- #}
{# Find the integration of a device or entity #}
{# --------------------------------------------------- #}
{%- macro get_integration(device_or_entity_id) -%}
    {{-
    [device_or_entity_id] 
    | map('device_attr', 'identifiers') 
    | reject('none') 
    | map('list') 
    | reject('eq', []) 
    | map('first') 
    | map('first') 
    | first
    -}}
{%- endmacro -%}

[boheme61]

@teskanoo

was provided by template master petro

Im not familiar with macro’s, nor how to use them

Yep , my CP came from same “source” Petro … i just added “list” and copied the result, as i didn’t want such template running/listening