Multiple Entities Control

[ChevronTango]

The default Entities card has a form element that allows for adding multiple entities into a single card. Would it be possible to also add this control into the formbuilder?

[marcokreeft87]

Isn't it already in there? I think so but can't check right now

[ChevronTango]

Isn't it already in there? I think so but can't check right now

I don't believe so. Only the single entity form element, but not one for adding the multiple entities. I did however find https://gist.github.com/JonahKr/f29d7b3e65c6707313ab4d421be9c8e7 which looks like it could be integrated with this to add that functionality. I'm going to try it in my own project first to see how it works.

[marcokreeft87]

Ah you're right. I will take a look at it when I have some time

[ChevronTango]

I had a go at writing something myself and it turned into quite the battle. I mostly got it working with one major exception, a few of the UI components don't load in because they are lazy loaded. I managed to get most of them in, but a couple I never got working, so there's a few little hacks in the UI to hide them.

https://github.com/ChevronTango/ha-tfl-status-card/tree/dev/initial/src

I tried where possible to wrap your code so as to make things as easy as possible when porting to your repo. I don't think I can easily create a merge request, but hopefully what I have demonstrates it's possible, and not too difficult to implement.

three main files are

• entity-row-form.ts which extends your code with more functionality to accommodate this feature
• entities-row-editor.ts which contains the code for the selector, pulled from ha frontend but modified to our needs
• load-ha-form.js a hack for getting the ha-entity-picker to load.

and you can look at index-editor to see how I was calling it.

[marcokreeft87]

Great work. I currently don't have much time for it because I can't work from home anymore.
Will try to get it into my repo when I can.

Since its a npm package, I'm sure anyone who uses it is handy enough to use your code for a while instead :)