List all automations that are triggered by a specific entiy

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Is there a way to list all automations that have a specific entity as a trigger?

If yes, can this be expanded to:

  • all automations with a specific entity as condition
  • all automations with a specific entity as action

Searching in vscode returns just everiting for a specific entiry (or any search string). So this returns way to much results.

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The VS Code search, to me, is the easiest way and just look at the automations.yaml, it will create a new line for each instance found. Other than that and looking at the related list of a given entity I don’t really think there are too many more options.

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In VSCode you can search for multiple line matches. e.g. select:

- platform: state
  entity_id: sensor.foobar

And copy it all into the search box.

It also supports regex search which is quite powerful.

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or

  - platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.foobar

The indentation is not the same in all my yaml’s. Sometime ‘- platform’ has 2 spaces in front of it, in other cases 4. If the automation is in a yaml under packages, or under automations, there is a difference.

Would love to learn how to do this with a regex expression. A domain that I don’t fully understand (I more or less understand what happens when I read the regex, but writing one myself ? nope :slight_smile: )

And when I would like to do a simple search for an entity in a codition, it gets even worse when conditions are nested. I get even more spaces in front of ‘- platform’…