Entity_id and unique_id messed

ceinmart · April 29, 2023, 11:47pm

Hi !
I’m new to Home Assistant, still configuring and learning how it works.

I have a few curtains here (called “Persiana” in Portuguese/BR) which I configure them using my Broadlink to execute the RF433 commands.
So to execute these commands I need to create scripts for each command (open,stop,close).
I use the UI to create all scripts, there I was use the duplicate function, but later to make easy the maintenance of these scripts I copied the YAML to my scripts.yaml and exclude the scripts from the UI.
At first, all works fine.

So, in the last few days, I notice the buttons which execute these scripts on my dashboard begin gray and stopped to work.
I don’t know the exact moment that happened, I already upgraded my HA twice (2023.1 > 2023.4.1 > 2023.4.6) .

Investigating and looking at the entities I discover in the core.entity_registry a very messed up entitty, unique_ids .

Just one example, the script “Parar persiana quarto visita” have referenced for other scripts…
The script “parar_persiana_quarto_visita” is into my scripts.yaml was renamed with a _2 and that is why my commands stop to work.

Is there a way to solve this?
I ran my HA on docker, I’m considering shutdown it, edit the core.entity_registry manually and make all references correct or even exclude all them, since they are into my scripts.yaml and will be reloaded.
Any tips?

ceinmart · May 4, 2023, 7:14pm

Just sharing, that I was able to solve this.
However, I did it in the not recommended way, editing files into the .storage

I also open an issue, since this appears to be a defect.

github.com/home-assistant/core

Scripts deleted still on core.entity_registry

opened 06:28PM - 30 Apr 23 UTC

ceinmart

### The problem I needed to create 3 scripts for each curtain I have here, on…e for open, close, and stop. I have 6 curtains, so, 18 scripts. * First I created them using the UI and using the "duplicate" command to make it easy. * After a while I needed to recreate all of them, so, I delete all * Restarted my HA. * Then I create them manually on my **scripts.yaml** and reloaded the scripts. The *identity_id* became messed. Someone became with "_2" at the end, others appear with wrong names, of other curtain + "_duplicar" (duplicate) at the end. * Investigating I found at **config/.storage/core.entity_registry** some old and deleted entities and that appears to be the reason for all this mess. * I deleted all again, commented all yaml from my scripts.yaml , stopped my Docker container, checked the **core.entity_registry**, and still exist some entities there, which should not exist anymore. Just a note : * I still have referencing for these scripts in two places: * Dashboard buttons * Script which calls all others, to open all curtains and others to close all curtains. Could this be the reason? If yes, then the HA, at the delete of an entity should ask if should remove all internal references, historical and saving... should be optional. There is no sense to force all this. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2023.4.6 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? core-2023.4.6 ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue Scripts ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet ```yaml abrir_persiana_gas_quarto_inf: alias: Abrir persiana gas quarto inf sequence: - service: remote.send_command data: num_repeats: 1 delay_secs: 0.4 hold_secs: 0 device: Persiana Quarto inf Casinha Gas command: abrir target: entity_id: remote.controle_broadlink mode: single icon: mdi:blinds-open ``` ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt there is nothing in the logs. ``` ### Additional information This situation here is after: * excluded all my scripts from the UI * removed all code from my scripts.yaml * restarted my HA . * Restarted docker container Just showing : 1) print screen from my scripts, where have no script of my curtains (abre/fecha/para ... persianas) 2) print of the entity search, which show the excluded items 3) print of the entity_id of one , per example. 4) the grep on the *.storage* showing the references of the excluded scripts, still there... ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235369259-7b678222-dc0b-479d-9039-e0817b860aec.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235369273-e4fbb678-829a-40fa-b4ad-a5e71eea3b9a.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235369286-33d81c97-b412-4a0f-9307-ff11ed97b600.png) (here it's saying : if not in use, exclude them from the config) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235369344-123b5681-b647-4c92-ac6d-64250f3547e0.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235370149-16348169-e6ad-475e-a5b3-82b6f3ed3a95.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7062410/235370160-55de9d09-1ab5-4941-a3a5-831a3139127d.png)