Home Assistant users struggle to group and present related entities
Home Assistant users building automations and dashboards say groups and helpers lack useful capabilities, including dynamic membership, state queries, triggers, and attributes. They also report needing templates or UI workarounds for state-dependent icons and dashboard layouts. This can make automations verbose and make related entities harder to present together without sacrificing dashboard features.
For home Assistant automation and dashboard builders. Mentioned from Feb 2025 to Jun 2025 on product forums.
4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.2/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Groups provide only 5% of what is needed for grouping and using entities in automation. To do complex automations using many items at once is 100x verbose and complicated without the below features
I don’t mind separate entities, but I still have a need for “grouping” them → hence I’d hope “devices” were much easier to work with in HA
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 1 product idea with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 3 places to find your first customers
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks