[Question] internal buttons on CardGrid

[trashmaster9000]

Hey,

i want to control my two living room covers, i've created in esphome three internal buttons that trigger the HA actions (open, close, stop) which i want to activate using the TFT without exposing these to HA.
is there a way to do this?

relevant code:

nspanel_lovelace:
...
...
    - type: cardGrid
      title: Rollo
      id: rollo
      hidden: true
      entities:
        - entity_id: button.cover_wz_open
          icon: chevron-double-up
          name: Auf
        - entity_id: button.cover_wz_stop
          icon: stop
          name: Stop
        - entity_id: button.cover_wz_close
          icon: chevron-double-down
          name: Zu

button:
  - platform: template
    id: cover_wz_open
    internal: true
    on_press:
      - homeassistant.action:
          action: cover.open_cover
          data:
            target:
              "area_id: b973d73bfc3511eab52731eb6f81cdc5"

  - platform: template
    id: cover_wz_close
    internal: true
    on_press:
      - homeassistant.action:
          action: cover.close_cover
          data:
            target:
                "area_id: b973d73bfc3511eab52731eb6f81cdc5"

  - platform: template
    id: cover_wz_stop
    internal: true
    on_press:
      - homeassistant.action:
          action: cover.stop_cover
          data:
            target:
                "area_id: b973d73bfc3511eab52731eb6f81cdc5"

HA Log entry:

Logger: homeassistant.helpers.service
Quelle: helpers/target.py:131
Erstmals aufgetreten: 16:09:43 (2 Vorkommnisse)
Zuletzt protokolliert: 16:09:45

Referenced entities button.cover_wz_stop are missing or not currently available
Referenced entities button.cover_wz_open are missing or not currently available

[Chreece]

Why are you making extra button entities and not use the cover entities from ha in nspanel?

[trashmaster9000]

i have various reasons:

• i want to use the HA area since there are two covers
• i want to have dedicated buttons to open/close without a submenu
• i want to trigger not supported HA actions via the tft on my second nspanel in the future

[olicooper]

At the moment this is not possible, but I am hoping to make the configuration more flexible in the future, I just haven't found the time to complete it yet. I think your problem could be solved if I created a dummy entity (similar to the iText or delete entity) and a on_press action for you to write arbitrary code.