Confused about Wink integration and devices vs entities

I recently started with HA and I’ve been working to learn all of the ins and outs, but like anything it’s a process.

Issue
One of the things that I did manage to do early on is integrate my wink hub, and I do see all of the devices that I’ve connected to wink appearing as entities in HA. However, none of the devices that I’ve connected to wink appear as devices in HA. I know that in HA entities represent the software/stateful model access and control, whereas devices represent the hardware and are supposed to come from integrations/components. As such, my inference from what I’ve seen is that either my configuration of the wink integration is incorrect/incomplete or that the integration does not include support for integrating wink-connected devices as HA devices. My configuration for wink is simply as follows:

wink:

Why I Care
I was hoping to begin taking advantage of the Areas feature in HA, and I have several devices connected to Wink that I wanted to incorporate. Unfortunately, you can only assign HA devices to areas and not entities.

My Questions
Does the wink integration/component support bringing in devices connected to wink as both devices and entities or just devices?

If the wink integration/component does support this, is there special configuration required for this, or did I do something wrong? My configuration for wink is simply as described above and I authorized the service with my OAuth keys as instructed.

If the wink integration/component does not support this, is this a feature that I can request or potentially contribute to? (Of all the languages I know, Python is not exactly a strength but I’m sure I could still help :wink:)

Thanks so much.

Any response to this?

I have the same issue. I cannot see any Wink devices listed in the device drop down menu when doing automations.