Negative matching with action node?

[tommyalatalo]

I have a situation where I would like to have negative matching on device label + area for some light controls when using the action node.

Essentially I would like to do this:

• switch.{{action}}
• entities with label solar
• NOT entities with area outdoor

That is to say I would like to target all my entities labeled with solar, which are also not outdoors with the switch action.
This currently doesn't seem possible with the action node, as there is no option to negate the outdoor area matching?

[tommyalatalo]

Hmm, I guess you need to use the Get Entities node with the action node to do this.

[zachowj]

I found an issue with the area logic while testing this. When using a condition like Area Property “name” != “outdoor”, entities without an assigned area are being skipped. This should not happen since an entity with no area should still be evaluated against the condition.

[tommyalatalo]

Okay, I'm still not fully getting this with Get Entities How do I best filter for both switch and light entity types in the Get Entities node? Can I use regex somehow to do that, or is there an entity "type" property that I can filter on (I couldn't find one)?

[zachowj]

^(switch|light).*

[tommyalatalo]

Ah, of course, thanks