Disabled iOS device entities still created - inconsistent with Android Companion app

[puterboy]

When I disable sensors under Settings->Companion app->Sensors, HA still creates the sensors (though they don’t seem to populate with data)

In contrast, on the Android companion app, the expected behavior occurs whereby the sensors are not created.

The iOS behavior is UNdesirable as there is no point in cluttering HA database and registries with unwanted sensor.

Plus the apps should be consistent in how they treat the disabled state.

[dshokouhi]

@puterboy

The iOS behavior is desirable as there is no point in cluttering HA database and registries with unwanted sensor.

actually expected behavior is for the app to register all supported entities so they can be enabled server side as well. There is a set list of enabled by default entities, the rest require to be enabled. That was a feature added some time ago for android.

disabled sensors dont get any updates from the app to the server. The server just needs to know they exist.