How to add a customized time and binary input?

@WoJWoJ wrote:

I use Home Assistant coupled with App Daemon for the automations.

I currently have automations of the style “30 minutes before sunset, switch on the lights in the living room”. The drawback is that the details are hard-coded: it is always 30 minutes, and every week day.

If I want to change either of these conditions (the number of minutes, or the fact that the automation runs) I have to edit my App Daemon code.

To solve this, I wanted to add to Home Assistant

• an input for the minutes
• a binary input for the execution or not of the automation
• relevant entries in the UI to switch / update them.

and query them from App Daemon to adjust the automation details.

It did not work

This is how I added the inputs:

# configuration/sensor/automated_light.yaml
# this is parsed because configuration.yaml has 
# sensor: !include_dir_merge_list configuration/sensor/ 
input_number:
  minutes_before_sunset:
    name: minutes avant coucher du soleil
    initial: 30
    min: 0
    step: 5
    mode: box

input_datetime:
  shut_off_lights_when:
    name: extinction des lumières
    has_date: false
    has_time: true

input_boolean:
  shut_off_lights:
    name: extinction des lumières
    initial: on
    icon: mdi:car
  switch_on_lights:
    name: allumage des lumières
    initial: on

and the relevant part in ui-lovelace.yaml

- entities:
    - sensor.minutes_before_sunset
    - sensor.shut_off_lights
    - sensor.shut_off_lights_when
    - sensor.switch_on_lights
    title: Automatisation des lumières
    type: entities

This gives on the dashboard:

and I cannot find any of the inputs in Development Tools / States

What is the correct way to add such entries?

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