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[Pabla]

Trying to figure out how I can include a list of entities that have "battery_level" in their ID without having to manually include them in a list. I have a group which selects all entities with the battery_power capability and filters them if they are dead. In HA there are quite a few entities that have the battery_power capability but don't actually report a battery percent (see screenshot below for an example), the entities I am interested in are the ones that contain battery_level in their ID.

I tried the following in the config file but it hasn't worked:

        "dead_battery":
          select:
            - include_capability: battery_power
            - include_entity: "/^hass>battery_level/"

What I think I am doing wrong here is that I am including entities with the batter_level capability which doesn't actually exist.

[toggledbits]

OK, the pattern you've written is looking for battery_level at the beginning of the ID. You want the end: /_battery_level$/ and don't include the controller ID for this.

[toggledbits]

@Pabla Your regular expression doesn't seem consistent with the way I've seen Hass assign IDs that contain battery_level. For me, it usually appears at the end. Can you show some examples of entity IDs that you have that you think should match the regular expression you've created, but do not?

[Pabla]

The battery_level appears at the end like yours

[toggledbits]

@toggledbits said in Include Entity by Name in Dynamic Group Controller:

Can you show some examples of entity IDs

IDs, not names, please.

[Pabla]

@toggledbits Some are a bit too long, but I think its enough

[toggledbits]

OK, the pattern you've written is looking for battery_level at the beginning of the ID. You want the end: /_battery_level$/ and don't include the controller ID for this.

[Pabla]

@toggledbits that did the trick