Select
Keeps track on select entities in your environment, their state, and allows
you to control them. This integration allows other integrations to offer
a limited set of selectable options for the entity.
Building block integration
This select is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.
A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this select building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.
If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the select building block offers.
Services
The select entity exposes additional services to control the entity in, for example, automation or scripts. These services can be created via the UI, but are also available in YAML (for which examples are provided below).
Service select.select_first
The select.select_first service
changes the selected option of the select entity to the first option in the
list of options available.
This service does not have additional options.
An example in YAML:
service: select.select_first
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
Service select.select_last
The select.select_last service changes
the selected option of the select entity to the last option in the list of
options available.
This service does not have additional options.
An example in YAML:
service: select.select_last
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
Service select.select_next
The select.select_next service changes
the selected option of the select entity to the next option in the list of
options available. If the current select option is unknown, the first option
in the list is selected instead.
In case the current select option is the last option in the list, it will by
default, cycle back the first option and select that one instead. This cycle
behavior can be disabled by setting the cycle option to false in the
service call data.
Examples in YAML:
service: select.select_next
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
# Disable cycling back to the first option
service: select.select_next
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
cycle: false
Service select.select_option
The select.select_option service
changes the selected option to a specific desired option provided in the
service call using the required option service call data.
The service call will not succeed if the selected option is not available in the list of options for the targeted entity.
An example in YAML:
service: select.select_option
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
option: "example_option"
Service select.select_previous
The select.select_previous service
changes the selected option of the select entity to the previous option in the
list of options available. If the current select option is unknown, the
last option in the list is selected instead.
In case the current select option is the first option in the list, it will by
default, cycle back the last option and select that one instead. This cycle
behavior can be disabled by setting the cycle option to false in the
service call data.
Examples in YAML:
service: select.select_previous
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
# Disable cycling back to the last option
service: select.select_previous
target:
entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
cycle: false