Ordering Entities Within A Group

guyonphone · May 23, 2018, 9:18pm

Hello,
I am having a problem with ordering entities in a group, in the gui, “camera.front_door” is shown under the sensor values, anyone have any ideas, i would like the camera to show above them.

Doorbell:
name: Doorbell
entities:
- camera.front_door
- sensor.ring_front_door_last_activity
- sensor.ring_front_door_last_ding

From the documentation it looks like order of a group is defined by it’s entity placement in the configuration.yaml file, but this seems to only hold true for devices of the same entity type
I tried putting camera.front_door earlier in my configuration.yaml, but unfortunately that didn’t help

tom_l · May 23, 2018, 11:48pm

There’s a problem with the way HA displays cameras in groups and views. The order is always vertically aligned in alphabetical order at the end of all other groups in a view no matter how you specify it.
There was an open ticket about it but it was auto-closed because nothing was done about it for ages. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/8210
Feel free to report the problem again. Maybe something will be done this time.

guyonphone · May 25, 2018, 11:41pm

Thanks for that information, I haven’t reopened this as an issue, because I found a work-around, which solves my specific issue.

What I ended up doing was the following:
A. First I added the components to my Configuration.yaml

ring:
  username: !secret ring_username
  password: !secret ring_password

This gave me the following entities which I could manipulate:

sensor.ring_front_door_last_activity
sensor.ring_front_door_last_ding
sensor.ring_front_door_last_motion
sensor.ring_front_door_volume
sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_category
sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_strength

B. Then created two groups in my Groups.yaml

Doorbell_Camera:
  entities:
    - camera.front_door

Doorbell:
  name: Doorbell
  entities:
    - sensor.ring_front_door_last_activity
    - sensor.ring_front_door_last_ding
    - sensor.ring_front_door_last_motion
    - sensor.ring_front_door_volume
    - sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_category
    - sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_strength

C. Then I created the view also in my Groups.yaml

Default_View:
  name: Home
  view: yes
  entities:
    - group.Doorbell_Camera
    - group.Doorbell

D. Then I edited the customize.yaml

sensor.ring_front_door_last_ding:
  friendly_name: Last Ding
sensor.ring_front_door_last_activity:
  hidden: true
sensor.ring_front_door_last_motion:
  friendly_name: Last Motion
sensor.ring_front_door_volume:
  hidden: true
sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_category:
  friendly_name: Doorbell Signal
sensor.ring_front_door_wifi_signal_strength:
  friendly_name: Signal Strength
group.Doorbell_Camera:
  order: 1
group.Doorbell:
  order: 2