I’ve been building up a (still relatively modest) HA setup on a RPi 4 over about three years and we’re delighted with it; at last a system which caters for the rapidly changing sunrise and sunset times for several months around March and September.
I’ve had a play with various bits and bobs (DIY built light sensors) and suffered a failed Broadlink WiFi socket (still yet to be replaced) but (apart from the ones that have been successful and kept) these all lead to one thing (and now I have three or four of them): “Entity not available”.
My OCD is really being taxed to the limit since (without poking around in the innards of HA and possibly breaking something) I cannot find a way to simply remove them and leave no trace. I realise this is a well-worn topic but I’m struggling to understand why over several years it either hasn’t been addressed, or the implementation of a method to remove them hasn’t been widely advertised!
Short of totally re-installing my system (which might help me with a long-standing Life360 issue as well), or taking a long look in one of the recent full backups, deleting stuff that looks relevant and then installing that and hoping it still works but without the unavailable entities, is there a “proper” method?
Many thanks, Mark B
