Hi,. I’m looking to do a few hours of work this weekend. I want to combine some of these random entities into a device. How would I do that? Is there a way to link existing entities to a new device, or does it need to be done at creation time.
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You can’t. Device are created by integrations that are setup in the GUI or are discovered. You can’t take some entities and create a device out of them.
So I was checking out the related integration code and I can understand it. But I can’t find any documentation about how to create a device. Can you point me at something I can use to group these 20 entities into a device which can be assigned to a room? Solar edge is just a steaming pile of crap on my lovelace and I need to do something about organizing it. I figure I could convert it into a custom integration but I can’t find documentation on how devices work.
You can also consider taking control of your lovelace and grouping the entities the way you prefer.
I have control of several lovelace dashboards. I like the overview dash, but there’s no option for guided control over the overview. I’d like to maintain a 100% dashboard.
Just create a Group and add all your entities there. You can link to a group from a card so it’s almost the same as a device, but neater and customisable.
Here’s an example of how to accomplish this. In you configuration.yml file add something like this:
group:
smart_planter:
name: "Smart Planter"
entities:
- switch.smart_plant_awake
- binary_sensor.smart_plant_charging
- sensor.smart_plant_battery
- sensor.smart_plant_soil
- sensor.smart_plant_water
- sensor.smart_plant_humidity
- sensor.smart_plant_temperature
- sensor.smart_plant_illuminance
icon: mdi:sprout
This will create a group called Smart Planter with all those entities available.
This is a 4-year-old topic. However that is exactly what I’m trying to avoid. I’d rather blacklist entities from a dashboard rather than whitelist.