Fairly new to HA and trying to expand on my setup to build some more complex automations. I am running HA in a docker container & I’ve created a virtual switch which has the following entity ID;
input_boolean.o_mode_sw
Will this have default values of Off/On, or True/False? or do I have to create the values?
I believe to customise the values on this switch to anything I like I need to edit the configuration.yaml, which is new to me. I’ve located the file in winSCP, but the file seems really “light”
# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:
# Load frontend themes from the themes folder
frontend:
themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes
# Text to speech
tts:
- platform: google_translate
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
The HA help pages say to customise an entity, put the values in this file and quotes an example:
homeassistant:
name: Home
unit_system: metric
# etc
customize:
# Add an entry for each entity that you want to overwrite.
thermostat.family_room:
entity_picture: https://example.com/images/nest.jpg
friendly_name: Nest
switch.wemo_switch_1:
friendly_name: Toaster
entity_picture: /local/toaster.jpg
switch.wemo_switch_2:
friendly_name: Kitchen kettle
icon: mdi:kettle
switch.rfxtrx_switch:
assumed_state: false
media_player.my_media_player:
source_list:
- Channel/input from my available sources
# Customize all entities in a domain
customize_domain:
light:
icon: mdi:home
automation:
initial_state: "on"
# Customize entities matching a pattern
customize_glob:
"light.kitchen_*":
icon: mdi:description
"scene.month_*_colors":
icon: mdi:other
do I just literally put the relevant code at the end of my existing yaml or do I have to begin a new section somehow?
Also there is a warning on that page that says: “If you implement customize, customize_domain, or customize_glob you must make sure it is done inside of homeassistant: or it will fail.”
But I cant do it from within home assistant as I am using docker so cant edit the file directly, I have to do it via ssh? Or am I reading that wrong?
Ideally I want the switch to have 4 states - Off, 1, 2, 3 (Or Off, On, 1, 2 if Off/On/True/False etc are required states).
I tried asking ChatGPT to get an idea of what I needed to do and it wrote the below code (I;m conscious its often wrong, but wanted a starting point)
- alias: "Switch to On-white"
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
to: 'on-white'
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
- alias: "Switch to On-Music"
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
to: 'on-music'
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
- alias: "Switch to On-DIY"
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
to: 'on-diy'
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
- alias: "Switch to Off"
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
to: 'off'
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
entity_id: input_boolean.o_mode_sw
I tried putting this into a blank automation in the Yaml editor in HA but got the error “Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘0’]” ?