Select devices and entities by label

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Hello
Apologies if this is the wrong section in which to ask this question.

Is there a plan to allow devices and entities to be addressed/selected using newly introduced labels in things such as automations and scripts. For example, a UI display card that shows all entities labelled as “Battery” and an automation that turns of all devices labelled “Lights” and “Sockets” when leaving the house?

I think such a capability would be incredibly powerful and would simplify HASS tremendously.

Thank you in advance

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This can already be done in automations and scripts. There are also some cards that already support it on the frontend as well (Auto Entities, etc).

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Incredible work. Thank you for pointing out the capabilities.

Keep up the good work lads.

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How does one select trigger devices with a specific label?

I would like to set the trigger part so that any device labelled “humidity” gets to trigger an automation if humidity levels reach a certain threshold? or for devices labelled “radiator” to trigger an event when they begin heating.

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For something like that, you’d want to use a template as your trigger and use the label_entities() function to get all the entities with that label. I’m currently mobile at the moment, but this [crappy :rofl:] example should get you started. I don’t have any humidity labels, but the concept is pretty much the same.

{% set lights_on = false %}
{% for entity in label_entities("light") %}
  {% if is_state(entity, 'on') %}
    {% set lights_on = true %}
    {% break %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{{ lights_on }}

However, that only applies to entities. You don’t really trigger off devices, just entities.

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@code-in-progress do you know if there is a plan to add the option to select triggering entities by label to the automations UI?

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I’ve not seen anything that suggests triggering off a label.