Why can’t Alerts be based on a template trigger similar to an automation where if the template evaluates to true the alert is active?
Sometimes I’d like to turn alert notifications off so I’m not getting pounded by notifications. My alerts are all based on template sensors where I have a boolean test built in to do this. But now I can’t use those same sensors to see the actual state in the UI (if I’ve turned the alerts boolean off).
So to accomplish this now, I have to create 2 sensors. One to base the alert on, which I can turn off and the other to show the actual state in the UI.
If the alert trigger could be a template, a sensor wouldn’t have to be created at all if you didn’t also need it elsewhere.