Label and group devices in the dashboard

[rgregg]

Describe the enhancement

I have a number of devices in different states of deployment - some are "done" others are "testing" and others are "experimental" -- I'd love to be able to assign labels to these devices in the YAML and then have them grouped/filtered by those labels in the UI. That way I don't need to sort through all the devices I have registered just to find what I'm looking for, and could stay in context while I'm working in the web UI.

While we could use a concept like "folders" that would map to the file storage on disk - I think labels would be a better approach overall.

Use cases

Separate the categories of my devices to make it easier to navigate / stay in context.

For example: I have "production" and "testing" devices - I'd like to be able to keep them spearate and stay filtered to just the "testing" devices when I'm in that mode.

Another use case is being able to organize devices by room or floor - so I can quickly navigate to the devices I'm looking for.

Visual examples

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Anything else?

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[Gnitset]

Yes please. I have so many devices and need to categorize them. A bunch of them are just prepared with firmware since they are hard to flash but they are not in use. It clutters the dashboard. Just hide offline devices would go far for me. But I really do want this to be able to categorize all devices.

[bepstein111]

Just adding another second to this. I have just enough configs that its getting unwieldy to manage them all. This could also help with the problem of auto-update working until it hits the first "testing" config which isn't currently installed, turned on and operating, ie only auto-update certain "tags" or categories, or whatever.

[borpin]

Yes definitely.

Similar idea to this - https://github.com/orgs/esphome/discussions/3464

[Gnitset]

Yes. But that is more limiting. I would prefer this suggestion.

[borpin]

Yes agreed - I did say similar 😀

[mmlody]

another thing near grouping or labeling is rolling update for devices
(not all devices from this group update in same time, device by device with definied time gap between)