Safety switch? (automation)

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Hi,

When i look on my phone i sometimes notice that my automation rules are switched off. I think i did that accidentally (while swiping on the phone in the GUI).

I want to make one master switch which has to be flipped before another switch can be flipped. Can someone give me an hint how to do this?

Thnx!

2

If you’re using the old UI there is a custom-ui solution that does the same thing.

3

Why don’t you just hide the automations?

4

are you using lovelace or original UI?
if lovelace, you can hide your automations if an input_boolean is off


see an example from my config 
      - type: conditional
        conditions:
          - entity: input_boolean.xmas
            state: "on"
        card:
          type: entities
          title: Xmas Lights
          entities:
            - entity: switch.lwrf_socket_xmas
              secondary_info: last-changed
            - entity: light.bauble_1
              secondary_info: last-changed
            - entity: light.bauble_2
              secondary_info: last-changed
            - entity: light.bauble_3
              secondary_info: last-changed

If using the original UI, you can set an automation to make the group group.all_automations hidden with the following action

    - service: group.set_visibility
      entity_id: group.all_automations
      data:
        visible: no

by default the group.all_automations is hidden so you’ll have to unhide it in the customisation part of your config:

group.all_automations:
  hidden: false
5

The “toggle-lock-entity-row” custom card might be useful for this, as another user mentioned. It makes elements require a tap to unlock them, then they can be toggled.

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6

Hello Silicon_Avatar,

Where do i put:

resources:

  • url: /local/toggle-lock-entity-row.js
    type: js

views:

  • title: My view
    cards:
  • type: entities
    entities:
    - entity: light.my_lamp
    name: A lamp
    type: custom:toggle-lock-entity-row

?

ps: i downloaded toggle-lock-entity-row.js to the local-folder,

7

At the bottom of your ui-lovelace.yaml file, put this:

resources:
  - url: /local/toggle-lock-entity-row.js
    type: js

And make sure you have the toggle-lock-entity-row.js file in the WWW folder (/workspace/config/www)

Then, back in your ui-lovelace.yaml file, you can make a new card with the following config:

 - type: entities
      entities:
        - entity: light.my_lamp
          name: A lamp
          type: custom:toggle-lock-entity-row

Where the light.my_lamp is whatever entity you want to use the locked slider.

8

Thnx Silicon-Avatar, i didn’t get it to work but it forced me to:

-“take controle” in the GUI
-discovered the power of lovelace (views/cards/editors)

Thnx man!

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