Nested Group of Persons

Configuration
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I am trying to display an entity card for people at my house (and eventually create automatons). I have a group of residents (persons with device trackers) working, and now I am trying to create a group of “known persons” that includes the nested residents group and other non-resident known persons. I have created a group of know people that includes both persons and the residents group.

When I view the “known persons” entity I see the correct home/away status. However, when I add the known persons entity to a lovelace card I see a toggle instead of a status.

Here are my groups

residents:
  name: Residents
  entities:
    - person.one
    - person.two
known_people:
  name: Known People
  entities:
    - group.residents
    - person.three

card
entit

Edit:
Does anyone have any ideas where I have gone wrong? Or is this a limitation with groups?

2

Toggling the known people group (which shouldn’t be there), give a error of a failed to call service:

toggle
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3

My groups of persons are called “person.groupname”. Not “group.groupname”.

Though I have created them through the UI.

4

Thank you for the reply. I was under the impression groups could only be set via yaml?

How did you manage “person.groupname”? Is that a person, with different device trackers?

5

Actually I didn’t (now that I checked it again). I just made a person with all devices trackers of the person’s I’d like to group.

Nested persons would be a nice feature though. Maybe create a feature request?

6

Yeah I’m happy create a feature request, if needed. As you can see it appears to work though, just not appearing as expected in Lovelace. Maybe its a bug?

Does anyone have any experience trying this?

7

Hoping to keep this topic alive! Does anyone in the community know about this? Is there something I’m missing here or is this an issue I should submit?

Thanks!

8

I’m guessing it is a bug with lovelace? When the entity is displayed in an entity card (vs ‘entities’ card as above) it appears as expected:
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9

Long-Time-Ago topic…
How did you make a Residents group through the UI?

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In September 2020 I don’t think it was possible to create a group in the UI, this was done in YAML config file. My residents group has been working, unchanged, since then. Looking at the UI for a ‘helper’ group, I don’t see an option for person. or device_tracker. groups. So it seems to do this you would need to do this in YAML still.

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