Entities in templates not picked-up

[andriej]

Watchman seems to not pick-up entities that are used in templates/automations like:

states.sensor.entity_id.state

Maybe regex with states.* could help.

Anyway, thanks for awesome integration!

[dummylabs]

Hey @andriej, Watchman 0.6 should capture entities referenced by states.*, it was fixed in #32. Could you please add more details:

• the fragment of the yaml with entity reference
• whether a real entity is present in the report as missing or a missing entity is not reported Thanks!

[andriej]

I did a lot of fixing since that time and may not have the code anymore, but some more examples:

1. watchman reports 'camera.split' missing:

   - variables:
     file: /media/snapshots/{{ now().strftime('%Y_%m') }}/{{ camera.split('.')[1]
       }}_{{ now().strftime('%d_%H%M%S') }}.jpg
   - service: camera.snapshot
   data:
     entity_id: camera.{{ camera.split('.')[1] }}
     filename: '{{ file }}'

2. same for esphome:

   | switch.is_on                   | missing | esphome/domofon.yaml:73,100                                  |
   | switch.template                | missing | esphome/domofon.yaml:127,131                                 |

   example of line:

   on_press:
     then:
       if:
         condition:
           switch.is_on: auto_open
         then:
           - delay: 1s
           - switch.turn_on: unlock

   also other custom components are picked up:

   | camera.generic_stream          | missing | custom_components/webrtc/services.yaml:20,66                 |
   | media_player.mibox4            | missing | custom_components/webrtc/services.yaml:51                    |
   | camera.living_room_camera      | missing | custom_components/yi_hack/services.yaml:9,47,71              |

maybe it's worth adding 'ignore' on esphome and custom_components or just leave it like that :-) I wanted to have clean report tho so make sure no mistakes are here after those few years with HA.

I do not have the faulty code anymore, but will try to reproduce when have some more time

[dummylabs]

Thanks for the feedback. For ESPHome folder it is recommended to add it to ignored folders list in Watchman configuration. May be a good idea to add it as default to Watchman configuration later. For various complex templates - it seems like quite a challenge to parse them with a regular expression, the only way so far is to put these false positives to the ignored entities list. Feel free to reopen the ticket if you manage to reproduce a bug with states.* entities.