Epson projector integration - duplicate entities?

Third party integrations
1

Hey,

so I’m basically trying epson projector integration, and it seems that after each restart I get a new entity. Excerpt from logs:

Dec 16 20:25:06 pot hass[13269]: 2020-12-16 20:25:06 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector
Dec 16 20:27:02 pot hass[13409]: 2020-12-16 20:27:02 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_2
Dec 16 20:27:45 pot hass[13489]: 2020-12-16 20:27:45 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_3
Dec 16 20:30:03 pot hass[13677]: 2020-12-16 20:30:03 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_4
Dec 16 20:32:07 pot hass[13766]: 2020-12-16 20:32:07 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_4
Dec 16 20:32:07 pot hass[13766]: 2020-12-16 20:32:07 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_5
Dec 16 20:33:12 pot hass[13938]: 2020-12-16 20:33:12 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new media_player.epson entity: media_player.epson_projector_6

And indeed the UI shows multiple entities …

My configuration is as simple as this:

media_player:
  - platform: squeezebox
    host: 192.168.3.4
  - platform: epson
    host: 192.168.3.7

Tried adding name: Epson but that did not seem to help.

Any hints? I’m on 2020.12.0

2

same issue here. it adds a new entity after every restart here too. somehow it thinks it‘s not the same projector.

3

Hej
To samo u mnie. Czy ktoś to rozwiązał?

4

Same issues here, I have just been deleting the old ones and then renaming the latest to the original name to keep my automation working.

Very inconvenient

5

Same issue here as well. I’ll be checking back in case anyone finds a solution!

6

So I came up with a workaround until this can be solved. I created a group called “group.epson” and inside that group I put “media_player.epson_1, media_player.epson_2”, etc until epson_10. I am now using this group in place of the epson projector entity in my automations which at least means I don’t have to clean up the duplicate entities on every restart.