Feature request: Define Entities using YAML Template

[teskanoo]

Not sure if this is possible but thought it might be worth asking.

My use-case is to chart the various entities that are used in a Bayesian sensor.

I currently use a combination of the custom auto-entities card and generic history graph to achieve this, but of course do not have the massive advantage of being able to scroll through time as I can with the fantastic history-explorer-card

generic history graph

I generate the entities list for the history-graph using the template: attribute of custom:auto-entities

{%- set bayes_sensor = 'binary_sensor.teskanoo_home_bayesian' -%}
{%- set ns = namespace(test_entities=[]) -%}
{%- set bayes_observations = state_attr(bayes_sensor, 'observations') -%}
{%- set ns = namespace(entities=[]) -%}
{%- for observation in bayes_observations -%}
  {%- set entity_id = observation.get('entity_id') -%}
  {%- set ns.entities = ns.entities + [entity_id] -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{{ ns.entities | unique | list }}

So my question is, would there be any chance of allowing the graph->entities node to be populated from a YAML template - I have tried this using [auto-entities] in combination with [history-explorer-card] to achieve something similar, but have had no success as the entities node for [history-explorer-card] is not a top level node

Thanks for your consideration - so very grateful for your wonderful work and continued enhancements on this card

[alexarch21]

I personally try to stay away as far as I possibly can from Jinja, so I don't really know how these auto generated cards work. How would that work in practice, what exactly would you need the history explorer card to do for that to work ? And what exactly is preventing it from working as it is now ?

[alexarch21]

Any updates on this or can I close this issue ?

[alexarch21]

I'm closing this due to lack of information and feedback.