I have a desktop PC. I don’t want kids accidentally turning off that power plug as it will lose all my work.
But I want to have it on my dashboard. Is there any way to do this? Maybe make it admin only?
Because I want to see it, and to use 1 dashboard not make an extra that is same in all other areas.
Yup, use the Restriction card, it works well. I have a couple of plugs used to hard shutdown a couple of systems when I absolutely have to. Because I didn’t want to accidentally trigger them, I put them behind a restriction card with a four-digit pin that needs to be entered first, then the switch becomes active for a brief time, and locks itself back up if it isn’t selected.
Jim
Thanks, that looks great, and seems I can even put conditions on.
Would I be able to put a confirm on only when the plug is drawing over 20w? If under then PC is already off, so no lock.
I’m not sure how to format it:
Apply restrictions to Lovelace cards (github.com) - card:
entity: switch.office_pc
restrictions:
confirm: true
condition:
entity: sensor.office_pc_power
attribute: raw_state
value: 20
operator: <
Doesn’t seem to work
