Hey guys does anyone know if this exist outside of lovelace.yaml
You setup a ton of zigbe, zwave or other protocol devices. Then by some unexpected circumstances, you have to change hubs or just want to upgrade to a better controller. You then have to Uninstaller and then reinstall all 100 plus devices, but in addition if you changed names/entity id's for the devices, then every card that has that device will need to be updated as well. That can be a bit much if you count 3 tablets, desktop and 6 in wall sonoff nsp panels.
Is there no way to have any entity that was associated with the old device to also update in the same way that it ask when you make a change in the device settings section?
This could work like a find and replace, but be UI based and more automatic.
#Alternative to lovelace.yaml for managing large changes.
lapis cave
jagged pewter
#frontend-archived can help with the frontend
lapis cave
I guess I am a bit confused as I think this is more of a backbone/frontend matter.
jagged pewter
Well, you want to change what's shown in the dashboard?
lapis cave
No I want that when an entity is updated in the devices setting pages that when you hit the update tab that all the changes propagate throughout all you HA files that contain that entity. Sorry If that was not clear
this would also be just a start, it could also be leverage that when you change deviceclass that the dashboard would update any cards with that entity as well.
jagged pewter
There's nothing that does that
lapis cave
I goal would be once place to change that propagates through the system.
jagged pewter
Spook can kind of help, but not really
Of course, if you change the entity id back to the old device, nothing has to change
lapis cave
Yea, I am staying away from spook for a while. I have enough odd things happening already
Is there a reason something like this has not been implemented?
jagged pewter
Because nobody has put the time and effort into doing it?
lapis cave
It seems that it would be a natural progression for lovelace.yaml.
jagged pewter
Doing that safely and effectively isn't trivial
lapis cave
well true
jagged pewter
And also the devs learned before that screwing up YAML and stripping all comments annoys people 😉
if you've got YAML then a simple search and replace can be done
lapis cave
Does S&R also work for dashboards?
lapis cave
It's my understanding that lovelace.yaml work exactly like that. I still use a combo of UI and Yaml for my dashboards, so I will give it a try.
jagged pewter
Well, if you're using the UI then that's not YAML
lapis cave
true. That said I think the idea would be a value add in the long run.
jagged pewter
So... learn Python, develop the feature, get it merged into HA 😉