Somebody fixed the search!

It looks like since one of the 2024 releases the entity search longer requires you to type the full entity name!

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Whoever it was, thank you for this!

Edit: I think it was @breakthestatic.

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Well it’s nice to see that someone apprecaites the change :laughing:

Definitely agree that some tightening of the fuzzy criteria is needed, but that’s more a part of the parent fuzzy search logic, not the expansion of the fuzzy searcher to additional fields.

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Yeah, ok, I see, the space in my example wouldn’t have been necessary, it splits the search term into characters, which leads to some spurious results.

Yes! Every time I use the search function I remember how bad it used to be, scrolling.

Thank you!!

This is very much a “function over form” change, the opposite of some of the UI changes that “designers” love to make and which are almost universally unwelcome by users.

We could use a lot more of this sort of thing; making systems work better for existing users, rather than more fashionable or enticing for new users. Yeah, I know. Those mundane usability improvements don’t make headlines or look good on a résumé. Still, some of us appreciate them!

I just had a play with it. It’s weird but I like it. e.g looking for script.lounge_close_blinds I used:

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It wasn’t the first result (that was script.lounge_clean_kodi_library) but it was second.

The order of the words seems to be important when searching like that so if you don’t know the name of what you are looking for just be less specific. e.g. what is my mailbox lid binary sensor called?

bisema-> binary_sensor.mailbox_lid_contact (3rd result after the mailbox door contact and mailbox full binary sensors).

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