Generic
Template select entity
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1 report: 1 says it doesn’t work.
Reported on r/homeassistant with template.
What people report
| Integration | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
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| template | Not working | Broken in Home Accessory fails to create at startup, no options | Template select options not available at startupSaved copyThe problem I've created a select entity using the template integration. I then added this entity to HomeKit configuration. Upon start I get the error it failed to create the HomeKit accessory. The problem seems to stem that HASS does not set the options for a select template until the state is being updated. When HomeKit then tried to add it there are no options yet resulting in the problem. I was able to monitor this by looking at the entity in HASS while monitoring the log file. The error in the log file appeared just before the entity was updated. Opening this for HomeKit but maybe the … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #66695 · 2022-02 |
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Identifiers
| Brand | Generic |
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| Category | Other |