WTH can't I search (and maybe replace;) the contents of automations, scripts and dashboards using the frontend?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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Motivation:

  1. Repairs (great thing!) tell me that “openuv.update_data” has been removed and I need to update “binary_sensor.protection_window” as well as “sensor.current_uv_index” with a new service. With a search function, one could easily find the corresponding automation.
  2. In addition, I frequently search for a specific entity_id or its pretty name in automations. From time to time it happens that I rename the entity_id (my naming scheme is a living thing!).

So far I do this via grep win (especially search + rename) - but this is slow and works better for automation and scripts, not so much for the frontend.

Thanks to everyone for the fantastic work on Homeassistant. This is a unique piece of software!

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So far, i am doing it with VS Code add-on’s search functionality

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Yes, would love a search and replace feature like VSCode in the front-end.

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Slightly off topic - did you find a resolution to the openuv.update_data service?

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Yes! It is quite easy. Just use homeassistant.update_entity. For example:

service: homeassistant.update_entity
data: {}
target:
  entity_id:
    - sensor.skin_type_2_safe_exposure_time
    - binary_sensor.protection_window
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This is one of the main reasons I do not switch to GUI instead of yaml.
There is no way to find errors or other snippets.

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This WTH is similar to the popular WTH is there no "refactor" functionality when changing an entity name?