Possible to know who is using HA Dashboard

[sebastien4444 (Sebastien R)]

Hi everyone,

I’m wondering if there is a way to know from wich device comes an interaction with HA Dashboard.

For example, if I press a button on my HA Dashboard from my smartphone, is it possible to get that info.

The idea behind is to be able to know from who or from where was an entity state modified (HA Companion on a specific smartphone, a tablet or a pc on my local network…)

[tom_l]

There is a user context value in the event that will tell you which logged in user pressed the dashboard button.

State.context to UI automation

This nugget was very useful, thank you! With this I can now differentiate the 3 ways a device’s state was changed. [Screenshot 2022-06-21 081430] Here is a sample implementation using the choose action: trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - switch.office condition: [] action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.context.id != none }}' - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigge…

But won’t tell you which device it was. You may be able to use the third party browser mod integration for that:

GitHub - thomasloven/hass-browser_mod: 🔹 A Home Assistant integration to turn...