Groups.yaml - ignoreUnavailable:true/false

[crisp stratus]

Hi,

I was playing around with creating groups and came up with an idea.

There is a "all: true" toggle which makes the group toggle only if all devices in the group has the same status, which is nice. But I would love to see an additional option like "ignoreUnavailable: boolean" or "ignoreErrorStatuses: boolean" or something similar. I know, there should never be unavailable devices but sometimes one of the children toggle the physical button on a light making the device powerless rendering it unavailable.

The problem this solves would be that the group would show the status of the group if all devices that can be on/off are actually off or on no matter if there are unavailable devices in the group. So if for some reason a light or switch doesn't toggle, the group doesn't toggle.

Having the group turn on just because one device or if all devices is on is unfortunately not enough. :/

[lucid helm]

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.your_entity_here
    to: "off"
    not_from:
      - unknown
      - unavailable

maybe?

The original groups integration if that[s the one you are asking about is sorta-deprecated-ish.
I doubt seriously that there will be any development on it.
Probably considered 'Legacy" meaning they don't plan on getting rid of it but going forward use something else to do that function.