Hey Guys,
It would make a lot of sense if Devices and Services that get created through the 3 integrations could be combined into a single device and Service. That would make writing Automations so much easier.
Rishab
Just group all those services in a new notification group and use that group in your automations.
It’s more about the device. Not just notifications.
Can you explain for what automations combined devices are improving things?
Groups help when you write a lot of references to the same set of devices. For example I one group consisting of my phone and my spouse’s phone. I have a dozen automations that send notifications to that group. When we changed phones, the device names of the phones were changed too, but I only had to edit one group entry.
But for that you use notification services - not devices. I still don’t get the basic idea of this FR.
The idea is simple, My Mi TV is listed in Home Assistant as 3 different devices - Android TV, Chromecast device and Notification service assumes its a different device. If they all get combined lot of issues get solved.
For e.g.
Andoid Tv provides me a power on/off option but if I use the poser on/off in chromecast, that just toggles the app. All apps i run on TV run within chromecast, So TV is shown as idle when anything is running on it.
Combining would create a unified interface.