Feature request: Monitor only devices from a specific integration

[Schnabulation]

I was wondering if it is feasable to monitor only devices within a specific integration.
As I would like to only monitor my ZigBee devices that would be all devices from the "deCONZ" integration.
I don't know if this value is represented in the entities itself.

I know I would be able to add these devices to a group and then interate through this group but I actually would like to have all ZigBee devices automatically added to this sensor.

Thanks for your help!

[bcutter]

Basically this should be quite easy to implement, just a filter required.

But forget about ZigBee devices integrated using deCONZ.

deCONZ only reports devices as unavailable (e. g. battery dead) after 24 hours of missing status updates. See https://forum.phoscon.de/t/inacceptable-huge-default-sensor-unavailable-time-of-24-hours/1592.

That's complete crap and forces us to think about better monitoring approaches not based on the deCONZ integration itself. Like this idea:

#11

[Schnabulation]

Could you maybe provide me with a filter for integration? Because the integration is not published as an attribute of the entity as far as I know. That‘s why I was asking here.

Regarding deCONZ: yes I know. But it‘s still better to have a notification after 24h than none at all.

[jazzyisj]

@bcutter

Basically this should be quite easy to implement, just a filter required.

I know you can filter/sort by integration in the front end, but I've never found a way to do this with a template. As far as I know there is no jinja filter or test for an entities parent integration. If you have the secret sauce for this please share!

[jazzyisj]

@Schnabulation If you look at the thread @bcutter posted I gave a couple of examples there of how to filter out entities for an integration. Easiest way - just add the integration's entities to your ignored entities group manually.

Wish I had a better answer.

[Schnabulation]

If you have the secret sauce for this please share!

I was actually hoping you might.

But nevermind, seems like this is not possible with the current implementation of integrations. I'll close this ticket. Thanks again for your great work!

[bcutter]

@bcutter

Basically this should be quite easy to implement, just a filter required.

I know you can filter/sort by integration in the front end, but I've never found a way to do this with a template. As far as I know there is no jinja filter or test for an entities parent integration. If you have the secret sauce for this please share!

Well for another usecase I use e. g.:

{{ integration_entities('deconz') | list | length }}

(which gives the number of entities for the deCONZ integration)

That should be something to work with right?

[jazzyisj]

That should be something to work with right?

@bcutter Absolutely! Well I'll be damned. I have never seen that anywhere. It works perfectly. I'm going to add a little note in the README when I get a minute to document this.

Any chance you know where that is documented in the HA docs? I did a quick search on the forum and I can't even find anyone using this function on there.

@Schnabulation try this template out. Replace "alarmo" with the integration you want to monitor.

            {% set ignore_seconds = 60 %}
            {% set ignored = state_attr('group.ignored_unavailable_entities','entity_id') %}
            {% set ignore_ts = (now().timestamp() - ignore_seconds)|as_datetime %}
            {% set entities = expand(integration_entities('alarmo'))
                |rejectattr('last_changed','ge',ignore_ts)
                |selectattr('state','in',['unavailable','unknown']) %}
            {% if ignored != none %}
              {% set entities =  entities|rejectattr('entity_id','in',ignored) %}
            {% endif %}
            {{ entities|map(attribute='entity_id')|list }}

[bcutter]

Any chance you know where that is documented in the HA docs? I did a quick search on the forum and I can't even find anyone using this function on there.

No unfortunately I don't. I came across this at the beginning of this year during research for my statistics project (before that I had to use command line instead of template sensors to manually search in the entity / devices registry file).

I think someone on the forums or another HA community noted it - there are a few topics using this on the HA forum. But no official documentation (which is strange and makes me think "Well, maybe there are another great filters out there?" 🤷🏻‍♂️) 🫤

[Schnabulation]

Hot damn you guys are awesome! I have adjusted the templated as you mentioned (replaced alarmo with deconz) and this works absolutely perfectly.

I have even tried to shutdown the deCONZ plugin and after the set 60 seconds all deCONZ entities have been displayed in the sensor.

Very nice work you guys!