Temporarily or dynamically disable an entity

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Hi everybody,
This is my first post, but I couldn’t find an answer on the forum. In the lovelace frontend, I would like to disable my covers so they can’t be closed when there’s too much wind.
For now I have an automation that opens the covers when there’s too much wind, but I’d like it to be impossible to close them.
Same for Climate: disable the entity when there’s a window open.
Is this possible? Or any other ideas?

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I believe the Conditional Card will do what you want.

Here is how I use it:

  • I have a conditional card that lets you control a door lock.
  • If the door is open, it makes no sense to allow a user to control the door lock. I don’t want the deadbolt extended when the door is not closed.
  • So when the door is open, the conditional card is hidden.
  • When the door is closed, the conditional card is visible.
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Thanks! I gave it a look but it looks like you can only use it for ON and OFF states. In my use case I want it hidden when there’s more than 35km/h wind. I could create a sensor for that though…

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Sounds like the perfect solution! :+1:

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Another way is - using card-mod:

type: entities
title: Locked cover
entities:
  - entity: input_boolean.test_boolean
    name: Lock the door
  - entity: cover.garage_door
    tap_action:
      action: none
    card_mod:
      style: |
        :host {
          {% if is_state('input_boolean.test_boolean','on') %}
            color: var(--disabled-text-color);
            --paper-item-icon-color: var(--disabled-text-color);
            pointer-events: none;
          {% endif %}
        }

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I’m also currently doing research to prevent closing of covers, when the windows are open.

@Ildar_Gabdullin In your example - Is the controlling of the “Garage Door” really not possible anymore or is it only greyed-out and if I nevertheless tab on the arrow the garage door will move?

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The “pointer-events: none;” property does not allow to push buttons.

9

Thank you for the information. In the meanwhile I found the following card do block the controls of my cover, when the windows are open:

Restriciton-Card

If in the future this won’t satisfy my need anymore, I will give the card-mod a try.

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A question: what happens if the entity is added to an Android widget using the Home Assistant app for Android? A user could still act on the entity, right?

And, in that case, the only option would be disabling the entity from the Entities list?

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Came across this problem recently after installing smart blinds which I want to prevent by all means from being closed if the window is open. Best method I found is to disable the entity using the homeassistant.disable_entity service that the Spook custom component registers.