BLE tracker, known devices, and a metric ton of unwanted entities

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Hi folks,

So I started using the bluetooth le tracker and as I was looking for a new device, I set track new devices to true. … It seems there’s a lot of bluetooth devices in range … I may have over a thousand new entities in my system.

What would be the best way to clear all these unwanted entities out? I figure (as I’ve now set track new devices to false) that I could delete them from known devices? Will this work, or am I in for a world of pain?

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I have the same issue. I have more than 6000 entities from device tracker and in the known_devices.yaml. Does anyone know how to remove them and stop this from happening? I have already turned off passive scanning in the Bluetooth integration

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Turn off discovery for the integration to stop getting new ones. Not sure of the easiest way to delete the existing ones though…

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What I did is delete the entities in the known_devices.yaml and restarting home assistant. I think It only had blue tracked devices - not sure what it is used for other than that. I think I did not delete anything useful from there…

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Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been offline for a while, but that’s what fixed it for me. To my knowledge, known_devices is only for bluetooth devices.

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Thanks for this! I had 20000+ ble tracker entities. Yep, that’s the correct number of zero’s!