thewatchman Included Entities Option?

Love this project! I would like to use it a little differently, if this would be possible. If there were the option to use an "Included Entities" list to manually select and add to a list, that would be amazing. I'd like to add wildcards of "camera." and "binary_sensor." for instance.

I did try creating a separate folder for it to monitor, but wildcards would not work in the yaml file I created for it to scan, only singular entities.

Would it be possible to add this functionality? It would work a lot better for me as opposed to it listing the hundreds and hundreds of entities in my config, many of which have a default state of unavailable or unknown, and then having to go in and manually exclude all the ones I don't want.

Thanks!

Mar 21 '22 22:03 The-Croz

Hi @bravesfan171, did I guess it right that your goal is to monitor states of an entity list (or multiple lists) defined by a wildcard (e.g. all camera entities) rather than detect all orphaned entries in your config files?

Mar 22 '22 17:03 dummylabs

Hey @dummylabs yes, that is correct! My original explanation was probably a little all over the place, but essentially I’d like to be able to define a list of entities or wildcards that it will monitor/include.

Is this currently possible or would that functionality need to be added?

Mar 24 '22 01:03 The-Croz