I’m not a seasoned HA user but hope to become one. I have written an MQTT application for another controller (Hubitat Elevation) that exposes devices to HA through HA’s MQTT auto discovery. It’s working well.
I have now been shown how to group all the entities I expose into a parent device such that this appears in 'integration’s as one device in HA with the sensor entities underneath. But I’m now at a loss on how to display this as a complete device in Lovelace.
I had expected being able to add the complete ‘device’ to Lovelace rather than have to build a card and select the required entities. Can I not do this ? Within integrations the device appears correctly but without the actual values of course.
I then looked at using ‘area’ to place the device but I can’t find any way of displaying an ‘area’ in Lovelace either. I don’t see ‘area’ being supported much at all but realise it’s likely a future feature too.
I gather Thomas might have a custom ‘auto entities’ card which I’ll investigate.
My hope was just to have complete MQTT devices auto discovered by HA and once moved out from ‘unused’ they each appear as one device card with the associated entities ‘automagically’ .
Can this not be done ?
K