Issues with toggling lights with the top card toggle

[rhoriguchi]

My Home Assistant version: 2021.12.10

What I am doing:
Toggle the top card toggle.

What I expected to happen:
The top toggle should toggle all lights on also the group and its sub lights.

What happened instead:
It only toggles the Living room light but not the Entrance light group and its sub lights (Hallway, Window).

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Minimal steps to reproduce:

configuration.yaml

yeelight:
  devices:
    yeelink-light-mono5_mibt1D55.iot:
      model: mono5
      name: Entrance window
    yeelink-light-mono5_mibt9166.iot:
      model: mono5
      name: Entrance hallway

light:
- entities:
  - light.entrance_hallway
  - light.entrance_window
  name: Entrance
  platform: group

# Living room is a  template switch witch gets used as a light with a light `turn_on` and `turn_off` behavior, but this bug happens with any light with a single light and a group.

ui-lovelace.yaml

resources:
- type: module
  url: /local/hs-lovelace-module-fold-entity-row.js?v=2.0.13
title: Home
views:
- cards:
  - entities:
    - light.bedroom
    - entities:
      - entity: light.entrance_hallway
        name: Hallway
      - entity: light.entrance_window
        name: Window
      head: light.entrance
      type: custom:fold-entity-row
    show_header_toggle: true
    title: Lights
    type: entities

Error messages from the browser console:
None

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[thomasloven]

That's a limitation in Home Assistant. Nothing I can do, unfortunately.

[carlos-sarmiento]

@thomasloven, could you elaborate on the reason this limitation exists on Home Assistant? I'm also struggling with this pain point and would like to either open an issue with them or work on a PR to fix it

[ildar170975]

Try to create this simple test:

type: entities
title: test
entities:
  - entity: light.xxxxxxxxxx
  - type: custom:fold-entity-row
    head: group.lights_yyyyyyyyyyy
    open: true
    entities:
      - light.yyyyyyyyyy_1
      - light.yyyyyyyyyy_1
      - ....
      - light.yyyyyyyyyy_5

This is how it looks in UI editor:

Note that the "Show header toggle" = ON by default - but the header toggle is NOT added:

It happens because HA adds the toggle only if more the one "toggleable row" is present (input_boolean, switch).
Here HA thinks that only ONE "toggleable row" is present - HA seems to not consider this custom row as "toggleable".

Then add some input_boolean row:

      - entity: input_boolean.test_boolean

And see what happens - the header toggle is added, and it works only for conventional rows:

Conclusion - the header toggle works with conventional rows only.