Save alert state

[alexyao2015]

Alerts are currently sent directly to HA and always returns none regardless of the actual state. Save a received state to the config or to memory for future retrieval.

[marcelveldt]

That is not true it actually looks for any active effect from HASS state.

[alexyao2015]

I mean the "alert" item, not effects. It's calling "flash" in HA. I don't believe that's something that HA returns when you call effects, so I think the only way to do this is by saving it ourselves.

[marcelveldt]

You're right. Got to have some more coffee :-)

Does HA return an attribute containing the state of the "flash" if you set it ?
Actually now that I think of it. This is always a one-off thing.

[alexyao2015]

It is supposed to return the value of the last alert that was called, even if the alert has already passed. Perhaps a config entry?

[marcelveldt]

I'd say save it to the light config entry indeed.

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