"look up" helper

Configuration
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Wondering if anyone has any thoughts or ideas around some sort of helper that allows you to kind of create a lookup table.

Ex: i am using grocy for doing some chore management. I have users configured for my kids in both grocy and in home assistant. I am using nfc tags to auto mark off some of the chores. I can detect that “kid1” scanned the tag, but I need to translate “kid1” into id=3 in grocy.

I know i could put that code in a template with some if statements but wondering if anyone has any thoughts or ideas on how to leverage a helper or maybe a way to add custom attributes to the “persons” in HA that would have more of this meta info?

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You can add custom attributes to entities by editing the configuration.

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This will work with persons too? I did not realize. that might be the perfect answer then!!

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Yep, just add it like:

homeassistant:
  customize:
    person.a:
      grocy_user_id: 1

Then after a restart it will be added to the state object:

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worked perfectly!!! thanks!