I have merely a handful automations. But I totally loose overview again. I cannot imagine how “pro users” would handle their hundreds of automation in such a flat organization.
Why is there no way to group them, or put them in “folders” with multiple levels?
I’d like to have a “Test”/“Debug” folder, group everything related to Emergency/Alarm, everything related to light etc.
Or does such thing exist already and I just don’t see it?
Although I should note that while “pro users” definitely want this too they may not want it as much as you’d think. While I’m sure there are users with hundreds of automations many users begin to learn techniques for reducing the number of automations.
Usually you can merge many similar ones together into a larger automation with multiple triggers and choose actions. And users can often reduce them even further as they get familiar with templating to reduce the amount of copying and pasting around hard-coded entity IDs and values required.
Not to say you shouldn’t vote on those two, it is certainly a valuable feature. But if you find yourself quickly building up an overwhelming amount of automations consider searching around this forum for tips on combining many smaller automations into one larger one.
I don’t think it will help very much, if it will be an option to create folders or something like this, for sorting automations. Instead of long list of automation where you can get lost, will be a long list of folders and subfolders, to get lost in it.
I think, what I use now is ok for me, and this is the naming convention. If you will find out the right naming and will stick with it, it will be much easier to find things.
There is also search bar and filters, to find automation where fx. entity xxx is involved.
@dydx: can you please close this thread as solved so anyone who’s searching for this can benefit from it.
You do that by selecting the three dots under the post:
Then select the check box:
Also, by doing so this prevents that someone else steps in for trying to help.
I can understand that you want to draw attention to the work you have done.
I have not expressed my opinion about your script so there is no way for you to know if I don’t appreciate it.
My post was primarily meant to give an answer to the OP with their question “Why is there no way to organize automations”
Since you have revived a topic that didn’t have any action in 1y, other users might jump in to try to help - as I did.
At the same time, when it would be closed as solved, the topic - with it’s clear goal/question - might help others too.
The link I posted is exactly what is being asked for with an in-built feature of HA.
Your link does other things.