WTH - Allow to dynamically reference things (entities, automations, ...) using tags

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Allow including (user) tags to things (entities, automations, scripts, areas,…). Each one could have more than one (0 to many).
Then, allow to invoke actions for things having a tag, dynamically.
So, you could define automations that enables/disables other automations (for instance) that have a particular tag (at-home). By allowing this functionality, when adding a new automation that should only work when there are people at home, you wouldn’t have to define a (pre)condition in that automation, and also, this new automation will be also managed by the automations managing ‘tagged’ things (without any modification).

Also consider setting (at runtime) the tags that a thing has, by providing new HA functions (entity.set_tag or entity.remove_tag, for instance).

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I would love to be able to do this, as I am trying to figure out the best way to ‘blacklist’ different entities without having to define it by other metrics (its area, device name, type, or the likes).

My use case is blacklisting entities on a pebble watch app for home assistant.

Thanks for your consideration :slight_smile: