Feature request: run external script on 'hass-cli entity rename' with from and to parameters

[haakonstorm]

Feature request: run external script on 'hass-cli entity rename' with from and to parameters

• I'm creating a simple way to refactor entity names in HA.
• Upon rename of entity in HA the referenced entities in /config/*.yaml needs refactor too

I'm thinking of a solution where hass-cli aids in this.

The Awesomest Way

hass-cli --refactor zwave.8f1f9f9b-switch-power-relay-nerdfont-compatible-device zwave.maindoor "Main Door Sensor"

My reasoning: because usually both entity_id and friendly name is changed at the same time, but not always (sometimes keep nil, set to nil, or do not change) and due to zsh/bash + complexities of escaping meta characters: Having end users enter friendly names directly as a parameter to hass-cli, when additional parameters might be passed, is a recipe for unwanted snafu, I think. I don't know a good way to solve this, perhaps apart from hass-cli either implenting some sort of readline to grab and sanity check the user input .. or implementing a "yes/no" prompt after displaying what hass-cli interpreted as the input for from_id and to_id / to_friendlyname.

Also awesome

`hass-cli entity rename zwave.8f1f9f9b-nerdfont-compatible zwave.maindoor "Door Sensor" --exec_on_success /path/to/hass-cli-refactor.sh'

If that rename succeeds:

• hass-cli renamed both the id and friendly name
• external script called, passed a simple json of from_id and to_id
• script handles the refactor/rename of config files via sed/awk, scripting vscode ++

I don't know if hass-cli already supports exit codes somehow, but with so many different outcomes to a rename, I thought it might be best for the logic and/or string sanitizing be done within a 'proper programming language' and for the results of that sanitizing to be passed to an external tool. Or, hass-cli does the blanket find and replace of all matches in /config itself. Are there any other places than the .yaml files have references that would need updating?

What do you guys think?

On a side note: I've daemonized hass-cli event watch state_changed via launchctl and also a helper tool parsing that output. Now I'm notified via bitbar on the macOS menu bar of changes on entity attributes registered in the simple tool. A native --daemonize would be awesome!

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