Mark input_select and others as Read Only in Frontend

Feature Requests
1

Hello,

I think input_X entities should have a frontend_edit: false parameter.

The reason is that they can then be used as displayable variables that are only written by automations/node red.

My use case is that my automation is setting an enumeration (input_select) from Node Red. I want to show the active state in lovelace, but I don’t want to be able to change it from the card.

Because sensor doesn’t have a service that allows writes it can’t be used. This also requires creating a template to get the “enumeration” effect which is more work.

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I am also missing a feature like that. I use an input_select to store the currently active scene (because this information is not available in HA for reasons I can understand but I need it anyway). Showing the active scene in frontend always gives the user the possibility to edit it, which is something I don’t want at this place.
For me it would also work to have a readonly: true in the definition of the frontend card but the original idea is also fine.