I’d like to see a config option for the Hue component that acts similarly to allow_hue_groups, but lets you choose whether to show individual lights or not.
I’ve got my Hue bulbs organised into rooms, and our loungeroom has two four-bulb fixtures (8 bulbs total), so I’d almost never turn an individual bulb on. I’ve got less Hue rooms than I do bulbs, so only showing groups makes more sense to me.
I know I can hide the bulb entities, but by that same logic I could just hide the bulb groups, so it’d be nice to have a companion option to allow_hue_groups, possibly called allow_hue_lights.
Use this in your configuration.yaml under homeassistant:
customize_glob:
"light.YOURPREFIX*":
hidden: true
All of my lights have the same prefix, so I only need one statement here. You can either use wildcards as above or specify individual lights in your customize_glob.
I just named the bulbs in the hue app, which is pretty straightforward.
If you don’t want to do that, you’ll have to create a default_view, which hides every entity that’s not specified. It’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it, and any items that get lost can easily be retrieved in Developer Tools -> States.