Hi. There is one thing I cannot figure out
I am used to giving my automations (YAML defined) an alias as this gives them a friendly name in listings
But I can see in the documentation that you can also give conditions
condition:
alias: "Temperature between 17 and 25 degrees"
condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.temperature
above: 17
below: 25
and actions/scripts
action:
- alias: "Repeat the sequence UNTIL the conditions are true"
repeat:
sequence:
# Run command that for some reason doesn't always work
- service: shell_command.turn_something_on
etc etc
These aliases must have a purpose but I cannot figure out for what? Where are they visible? If it is just for comments you would use a #-priced comment line
The documentation says many places that you can use aliases but I have yet to find a place where it is stated what good it is for