WTH is there no any_person_home sensor that returns if any configured person.* is 'home'

Month of "What the heck?!"
1

Currently, to aggregate all the person.* states, it requires manually creating a group of every known person (and maintaining that as you add new people):

group:
  any_person_present:
    entities:
      - person.ron_burgundy
      - person.james_bond
      - person.indiana_jones
      - person.harry_potter
      - person.han_solo

There should be a single sensor that aggregates all the person.* entities into a single sensor that can be checked in automation so this kind of manual grouping is not required.

2

The group method is no longer necessary. Each zone’s state is the number of person entities in that zone, and each zone has an attribute persons which returns a list of those entities.

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