Number Entity Cannot be accessed using Labels as a Reference

[jvmahon]

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Describe the issue you are experiencing

Background:

This relates to the "Number" entity and use of the "Labels" field to reference those entities in scripts and automations.

Problem:

Attempts to reference "Number" entities fails when trying to identify them by a Label.

Recreating the Issue:

1. I have a large number of "Number" entities that are crated by the Matter integration which I have labeled using the "Labels" feature, as shown in this image:

2. I then use these Labels in a script to select the number entities as shown below:

And in YAML, shown as:

action: number.set_value
metadata: {}
data:
  value: "1.0"
target:
  label_id:
    - on_transition_time

However, the script does not appear to be able to identify the entities using the labels. Expected behavior and problem are further described below.

Describe the behavior you expected

The Problem:

Use of labels as shown above appears to be ineffective. This is demonstrate in two ways:

• If I click on the label expansion symbol (the "<>" marking on the label), I expect that the label will be replaced by the actual identified entities. However, what happens is that the label disappears and no entities appear
• If I run the script with the label itself (i.e., without trying to expand the label), I expect the script to act on all of the entities with that label. However, nothing happens.

Steps to reproduce the issue

(already described above).

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.08.02

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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In which browser are you experiencing the issue with?

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Which operating system are you using to run this browser?

windows 10 and windows 11

State of relevant entities

"Number" entity (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/number) as used in Matter implementation. I am not sure this Label issue has anything to do with "Matter" integration, but that is the integration I observed the behavior on.

Problem-relevant frontend configuration

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Javascript errors shown in your browser console/inspector

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Additional information

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[karwosts]

Hmm I can't reproduce, it works perfectly for me 😕

[jvmahon]

Hmm I can't reproduce, it works perfectly for me 😕

@karwosts Definitely not working for me. I've tried both with entities created by the Matter Integration as well as by Z-Wave integration.

Is this the right issues list for this, or maybe there is something more narrowly focused on the "labels" function?

Here's an example of the issue repeated on Z-wave. Here, I've labeled several "ping" buttons with the label "ping label test"

I then set up a script where I try to access these by label and shown below, but if I click the symbol "<>", I expect the label to disappear and get the list of entities. Instead, the label disappear and I get no selected entities.

Currently running the following:

[jvmahon]

Hmmm, I now see in the "core" repository, there are some label functions there. I'll give a few more days here to see if there is a response, else I'll close this and repost the issue over to there in case its the appropriate place.

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