Use entity status enabled/hidden/disabled programatically

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I’d like to read the entity status that can be enabled/hidden/disabled.
For context I want to use this in a card like this:

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The card lists all binary sensors that are open. I have multiple windows in a room and usually group them for simplicity. The problem is I am getting the group and the hidden entity that is already part of the same group as open entities.

The only thing that I can think of that distinguishes the individual entity is that it’s hidden. Can I access that hidden status somehow?

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It doesn’t appear as an entity’s attribute so it can’t be read using state_attr and there’s no other function available to read it.

3

This might be a solution:

hidden_by in entity registry: Entities can now be hidden via the entity registry. These entities should default to not be included when exposing entities to an external UI like voice assistants.

4

The entity registry is where an entity’s properties are recorded. It includes properties that can’t currently be changed via an automation/script (like an entity’s UI visibility).