Add services for Labels

[Mincka]

Hello,
Thank you (and the team) for the newly added support of labels, that's great!
When I read the Beta Release notes, I believed that I would be able to dynamically assign labels to entities.

Do you have solar panels or home battery? Create a label “⚡️ Heavy Energy Usage” to label devices that consume a lot of energy, you could maybe switch them off when there is not enough battery or solar energy available.

I told myself: "Great idea! I'm going to create an automation to dynamically assign labels to entities based on specific events and conditions". In that case, if there's a high energy consumptions, I can label the entities with “ Heavy Energy Usage”.

Maybe you'll tell me that I could use "Alert" or "Repair" for that but I like the idea to use label instead since it will be more flexible. I could have a card that shows only the entities with a specific label for instance.

Since Spook already support that kind of thing for Areas, I think support for "Labels" could be a great addition. Maybe even for the Core project?

[frenck]

Already on it!

[frenck]

The following PRs related to this are implemented:

• Detect unknown labels used in automations @frenck (Detect unknown labels used in automations #694)
• Detect unknown labels used in scripts @frenck (Detect unknown labels used in scripts #696)
• Add homeassistant.delete_label service @frenck (Add homeassistant.delete_label service #712)
• Add homeassistant.create_label service @frenck (Add homeassistant.create_label service #713)
• Add homeassistant.add_label_to_area service @frenck (Add homeassistant.add_label_to_area service #715)
• Add homeassistant.add_label_to_device service @frenck (Add homeassistant.add_label_to_device service #716)
• Add homeassistant.add_label_to_entity service @frenck (Add homeassistant.add_label_to_entity service #717)
• Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_area service @frenck (Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_area service #718)
• Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_device service @frenck (Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_device service #719)
• Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_entity service @frenck (Add homeassistant.remove_label_from_entity service #720)

Will be part of the v3 release (probably landing upcoming weekend).

../Frenck

[Mincka]

Wonderful! Thank you very much. That's a great addition. 👍
Perfect timing with https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-auto-entities/releases/tag/v1.13.0 😀

[MartijnGP]

Hi Spook! May I suggest more ways to interact with the tag? Adding and removing them dynamically already makes them much more useful, but I would like to be able to filter entities based on their flags as well in my templates. So that I can perform actions on entities depending on the tags they may (or may not) have.

[Mincka]

You mean like this?