In the latest 2026.6 update, Home Assistant flipped the script on dashboard card and automation selectors. It now forces you into a "By Entity/Device/Area/Floor/Label" visual tree hierarchy. While this is great for beginners, it can feel like a massive bottleneck for power users who are used to filtering and selecting 10+ entities in one clean shot—leaving you jumping into the YAML editor to manually paste them.
How can select 10+ entities in 1 shot again?
For Dashboard Cards, just click the "By Card" tab:
For Triggers and Conditions, I just use the search bar.. that has been the fastest option for a while.
EDIT:
Can you clarify where/how you were doing this. I can't picture anywhere in the Card selector or Automation components selectors where you would select multiple entities.
He's probably referring to card picker, before the update, you can select "multi entities" for the new card. Those are then set as entities for the entities card.
The old card picker is still there too, so I do not understand the problem?
you cant batch add entities anymore ? or is there a walkaround ? ( except going back to an older version, )
I can honestly say I have never seen that before...
What happens if you click on the box next to Entities before selecting individual entities?
Doesn't that select all entities matching your current filter?
pick cards...
the card picker i never used , i added a video in this topic , on how i add entities in batch
The video is what it looks like before updating to 2026.6.0 when using "By Entity". The check boxes allow you to select multiple entities and then it creates all of them on a dashboard.
After updating to 2026.6.0, it looks totally different when using "By Entity" There are no check boxes, and no way to select multiple entities...at least I couldn't figure it out).
Here's what mine looks like:
On my production server, 2026.5.4
On my test server 2026.6.0, after going through the tree and choosing "Entities". No check boxes to choose multiple entities. Apparently only one entity can be selected.
Ah, now I get it (finally)!
Yeah, I agree that sucks. No idea if it's a frontend bug or whether it's intentional. I get that the Devs wanted to make card selection easier for newbies, but it shouldn't come at a cost of reduced functionality.
Yeah, that was my first thought...either a bug or by design. Who knows?
For my little HA server (~1000 entities so far) it's not that big a deal. But, I have used multi-select in the past, and would probably use it in the future... so the reduced functionality is definitely annoying.
Perhaps the OP or somebody can submit an issue on GitHub. I don't have a GH account to do so.
