home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/select.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_quality_scale	ha_domain	ha_codeowners	ha_integration_type
Select	Instructions on how to manage your Select entities with Home Assistant.	Select	2021.7	internal	select	@home-assistant/core	entity

The Select {% term integration %} manages the state of the select entities and allows you to control them. This integration allows other integrations to offer a limited set of selectable options for the entity.

{% include integrations/building_block_integration.md %}

The state of a select entity

The state of a select entity is the value of the currently selected option.

Screenshot showing the state of a select entity in the developer tools.

In addition, the entity can have the following states:

• Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
• Unknown: The state is not yet known.

Actions

The select {% term entity %} exposes additional {% term actions %} to control the entity in, for example, {% term automation %} or {% term scripts %}. These actions can be created via the UI, but are also available in YAML (for which examples are provided below).

Action select.select_first

The {% my developer_call_service service="select.select_first" %} action changes the selected option of the select entity to the first option in the list of options available.

This action does not have additional options.

{% my developer_call_service badge service="select.select_first" %}

An example in YAML:

action: select.select_first
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity

Action select.select_last

The {% my developer_call_service service="select.select_last" %} action changes the selected option of the select entity to the last option in the list of options available.

This action does not have additional options.

{% my developer_call_service badge service="select.select_last" %}

An example in YAML:

action: select.select_last
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity

Action select.select_next

The {% my developer_call_service service="select.select_next" %} action 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 action data.

{% my developer_call_service badge service="select.select_next" %}

Examples in YAML:

action: select.select_next
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity

# Disable cycling back to the first option
action: select.select_next
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
  cycle: false

Action select.select_option

The {% my developer_call_service service="select.select_option" %} action changes the selected option to a specific desired option provided in the action using the required option action data.

The action call will not succeed if the selected option is not available in the list of options for the targeted entity.

{% my developer_call_service badge service="select.select_option" %}

An example in YAML:

action: select.select_option
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
  option: "example_option"

Action select.select_previous

The {% my developer_call_service service="select.select_previous" %} action 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 action data.

{% my developer_call_service badge service="select.select_previous" %}

Examples in YAML:

action: select.select_previous
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity

# Disable cycling back to the last option
action: select.select_previous
target:
  entity_id: select.my_entity
data:
  cycle: false