How to re-enable a device

ESPHome
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I have a SOnOff device that I use for testing. When I got done with testing a while ago, I disabled the device and the entities, and deleted the device from the ESPHome tab. I need to do more testing, so I re-enabled the device and its entities, but the switch is still grayed out. I believe that this is because the device does not show up in the ESPHome tab, but I am not sure what to do.

I could add a new device, but I don’t know if this is the right thing to do. Any suggestions?

2

Showing up in the esphome tab (I assume you mean the esphome UI) has nothing to do with the device’s interaction with HA.

3

I solved this issue, possibly the hard way, by finding every instance of the device name in /config/*, removing them, then starting over…