Does this still work even with the 2022.3 update of HA?

[ThePrincelle]

Hi,

After seeing an issue (custom-components/pyscript#331) in the pyscript project, I was wondering if there may be a similar problem with this component too.

Thanks for your response,
Maxime

[dlashua]

You are absolutely right. This is likely broken against version 2022.3 and later.

I don't actually use this custom component any longer, so a it'll be a bit before I can get around to setting up an environment to test the fix. However, as I sent the PR for the pyscript fix, I'm pretty sure the fix in this case is the same.

I'll happily accept a PR from anyone able to do so. Otherwise, I'll try to get to this later this week.

[ThePrincelle]

Thanks for your response.
In fact, I'm already using this component with pyscript.

Maybe you can help me use the method provided by pyscript to set an entity and persist it.

# Set State (persist)
def set_state(entity_id=None, value=None, friendly_name=None, icon=None, unit_of_measurement=None, new_attributes=None):
    options = { "friendly_name": friendly_name }

    if icon is not None:
        options['icon'] = icon 
    
    if unit_of_measurement is not None:
        options['unit_of_measurement'] = unit_of_measurement

    if new_attributes is not None:
        for key in new_attributes:
            options[key] = new_attributes[key]

    setter.set(entity_id=entity_id, state=str(value), attributes=options)

I can try to create a PR for this project too, but unfortunately I'm pretty busy at the moment.

[dlashua]

pyscript is unable to persist entities outside of the "pyscript." domain. It isn't that Home Assistant doesn't allow it, but the pyscript code specifically checks for and refuses to persist any entity that isn't "pyscript.*".

If you need persistence (i.e. restoring of state), then hass-setter, as you are using it, is one way to get that. If your pyscript code is capable of recalculating state at startup without the need for persistence, you can just use "state.set(entity_id, value)".