I’ve only recently discovered helpers- neat addition.
However, in experimenting with helpers I have quite a few that are meaningless, but I cant figure out how to delete or edit/rename them.
I also have some that were created in configuration.yaml, and later deleted from configuration.yaml, but the helpers are still present. Worse, they are marked as “read only”. How do I delete those?
In Configuration / Devices and Services / Entities tab. Sort by the Status column. Also ensure you aren’t filtering the list (the triangle icon top right).
Tick the check boxes of the items you want to remove then click Remove Selected.
Thanks. Silly me thinking that I would find “delete helpers” in the helpers menu… But I hadn’t made the connection yet that a helper is an entity.
Feature suggestion: How about a “help” button where a tooltip could pop up with such tips? It amazes me how often the answer to my question is in the docs, but knowing where to look is the mystery.
Thanks. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t find that.
Hi @stevemann, can you please mark this topic as solved?
If you mark this thread as solved by selecting the answer which gave you the solution, other members will not jump in to try to help (like I just did) AND the topic will be useful for others having a similar issue.
But there is no option to delete the Simple helper for input Boolean toggle switch and it can neither be removed at the entities page.
Did you add it using yaml or the UI?
If you used YAML, delete the YAML config, restart then delete the restored entity from the entities list.
If you used the UI see the solution above.
I used the UI but for toggle helper, there is no “delete” button in the window when I clicked on the entity:
Click the settings icon. The cog icon, middle icon top right of that card.
Clear your web browser cache and try again.
Cleared, nothing changed. same displayed.
Check Settings → System → Logs
I have the same issue. I worked around it by editing the helper via the mobile (Android) HA app.
Same issue here: I cannot delete the input_boolean helper.
The “cog” icon in Settings > Devices & Services > Helpers shows exact same result as @kychan1121.
Environment:
Home Assistant 2023.7.3
Supervisor 2023.07.1
Operating System 10.3
Frontend 20230705.1 - latest
Principle of least surprise: I expected to be able to delete a “Helper” under the “Helper” menu.
Addendum: deleting from the “Entities” page also does not work:
Result:
Only 0 selected entities can be removed.
You can only remove 0 of the selected 1 entities. Entities can only be removed when the integration is no longer providing the entities. Sometimes you have to restart Home Assistant before you can remove the entities of a removed integration. Are you sure you want to remove the removable entities?
Same issue. I’m pretty confident there is a bug here.
First thing to check:
There are no open issues. So you can make a report using the new issue button.
Though this may be a frontend issue which you may be asked to report here:
I am wondering if there is a solution to ediit or delete a Schedule Helper.
In one case I want to change the schedule and in another case I want to delete a Schedule helper because I removed the related device.
When I click on remove in the Entities list I get:
You can only remove 0 of the selected 1 entities. Entities can only be removed when the integration is no longer providing the entities. Sometimes you have to restart Home Assistant before you can remove the entities of a removed integration. Are you sure you want to remove the removable entities?