Easy way to group lone entities into a device?

Configuration
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I have three entities, 2 created in configuration.yaml via modbus and one which is a template sensor created in UI

  • binary_sensor.linknlink_radar_presence
  • sensor.LinkNLink_mmWave_Motion and
  • sensor.LinkNLink_mmWave_NoPerson_time

These do not exist in devices, but exist only as separate entities in the entities list

I want to group these as a device in the Home Assistant UI - seems like it should be easy but i’m struggling to find any way to do this?

Anyone advise?

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As far as I know there is nothing that does that.
Unless it’s a custom integration

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Oh wow, really? I’m actually very surprised that there isn’t a way to do this!
I could see that people might want to group helpers etc in a similar way as well

I don’t mind a custom integration - i found one for virtual devices but it just seemed to create empty virtual devices :frowning:

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Devices are just something integrations use to handle entities that needs to be de-/re-listed.
Users should use entities instead and avoid devices.
Device IDs are a bane! Users do not see it when they use them, but later they are hot with the issues they cause.

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Just found there is a custom integration for LinkNLink that i can use instead of Modbus - solves this issue :slight_smile: