My latest little helper allows you to create state, not state and numeric state helpers which provide a binary sensor that turns on if any entity with an assigned label matches the criteria you specify.
An entities
attribute is available which lists all entities that match the criteria.
Example use cases
- Create a
critical sensors
label and create a State type Label State helper which turns on when any of those entities goes unavailable so you can get a notification. - Create a
must be on
label and create a Not State type Label State helper which turns on when any of those entities goes to any state but on so you can get a notification. - If you have appliances which should always draw a certain wattage create a Numeric State type Label State helper to turn on when any of those devices starts drawing 0 watts, triggering a notification.