Naming of helper types consistency

Feature Requests
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It may be a translation issue, but I’m not sure.

If I add a helper in Settings/Helper (english original guessed, I’m using German) I get a selection of the different helpers to be created which does not look sorted at all. I then looked in the list of helpers I have because it should be the same like an existing helper. This existing helper was type “Auswahl-Eingabe” in the list. But I needed to select “Dropdown-Menü”.

If I click on that helper, there is nowhere shown which type it is.

So it is:

  • When creating, Dopdown-Menü
  • When listing, Auswahl-Eingabe
  • When opened, shown nowhere
  • Used internally some type name, probably dropdown or similar

I’d like to have one name for the type being selected/shown everywhere to minimize guessing what is meant. Preferably the one that is used in all languages, just a type name like in programming languages int, string, number, whatever. English would be fine. Having different translations being used for the same thing in different places is confusing.

2

Good thought. Don’t forget to vote for your own FR. :grin:

3

“Input Select” e.g.

input_select.house_mode

4

At least in English it has gotten slightly better than it used to be:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-is-the-type-sorting-so-inconsistent-on-the-helpers-page/469041

5

But toogle is switch and many, if not most, will be named differently.
I have fallen i to this too, so voted!

6

That has nothing to do with the information I was providing. They wanted to know what a drop down helper domain was.

And a “toggle” helper is not a switch it is an input boolean.

7

Ahh, sorry and to my confusion about the toggle, then It proves the point. :rofl: