Synapse entity generation

[zoe-codez]

🪤 Context

UI based entity registrations. Backend will assemble entities, and provide to automation code like this

entities.my_select.current_option = "foo"

📬 Caveats

The synapse entity generation tools won't be provided directly to the service for v1. There's some weirdness to sort out with continually redefining an entity, and potential memory leaks through the strange create / teardown process

🩻 Additional details

https://github.com/Digital-Alchemy-TS/code-glue/blob/main/apps/server/src/utils/contracts/entities.ts

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Attributes

These get reported to home assistant as part of entity.attributes.

• defaultAttributes (JSON object)
• attributes (type definition)

Locals

Used for storing properties against the entity without emitting update events or sending that info to home assistant. Info DOES get persisted to sqlite automatically

• locals (type definition)
• defaultLocals (json object)

Configuration

Domain specific configurations. Used as the default value for new entities

Will need to reference synapse library internals for types. LMK and I can point them out for import

• defaultConfig (json object)

Standard entity stuff

• icon
• name
• suggested_object_id
• type
• icon (can be changed at runtime also)

Other

• documentation
• labels (does not auto sync to generated entity)