With the further changes to the Unify integration I’d like to try once more to see if I can get an answer to some questions.
I recently got all of my new unifi network equipment running and set up the Unifi integration in HA. And, as expected, it added every single device on my network to my entity registry. That’s OK, since we now have a way to deal with all of those we really don’t want to track.
I went thru the entity registry and selected all of the ones I don’t want to be tracked and turned off the “enable entity” switch. That worked as far as removing them from showing up as entities in the states page. But they all still show as “unavailable” in the entity registry…all 50 or 60 of them… So now I have a very long list of device trackers to scroll thru every time I need to go do any work in the entity registry.
Since we also have the ability to “delete” the entity from the entity registry I thought I would do that to shorten up that list. Then when I click on the “delete” button I’m greeted with this pop up:
What does that mean?
Why would deleting an entity not remove that entity from HA? Where will it still be? in some sort of “.storage” file limbo? Is there anyone who can answer this question?
And as a follow on, let’s say that I decide I don’t want to track an entity so I click the “delete” button so my entity registry isn’t cluttered up with those 60 entries that I don’t care about. Then let’s say that later I decide that I want to actually track the entity again (one of my kids decides to move back in for a while, or whatever). How do I get that entity back into the system again if there is no longer any manual device tracker configuration for individual entities?
Before this new system was implemented the entity was still listed in the known_devices.yaml file and I could just turn the entity tracking (and, hence, it’s existence in the system) on & off at will in there.
I think I may be missing something critical in how this new system is suppose to work.