Hiding an entity from AirVisual

Configuration
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In my sensors.yaml, an AirVisual sensor creates three entities.

In groups.yaml, I added all three in my Weather group,

  - us_air_pollution_level
  - us_air_pollution_index
  - us_main_pollutant

With customization.yaml configured
  - us_main_pollutant:
    hidden: true

When the “hidden: true” didn’t work, I moved “us_main_pollutant” to a new group that I named “Hidden”, and I created an automation to set group’s “visible” attribute to false. Before I run the automation, the Hidden group is visible, and us_main_pollutant" is displayed. When I run the automation, the group disappears as expected. However, “us_main_pollutant” becomes a badge at the top of the window.

I should also mention that HA also ignored friendly names when I attempted to assign them to AirVisual entities.

I do have “config:” in my configuration.yaml file. Based on what I’ve read, this may be what is causing the problem. I don’t want to remove “config:”, so I am looking for other options:

These are the questions going through my head.

  • Is there any way to configure the AirVisual sensor so it will not produce the unwanted entity?

  • Is there a way to prevent “config:” from overriding my customizations related to the AirVisual entities?

  • Is there another source for Air quality data that works with config:?

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This problem turned out to be a YAML indentation issue in a totally unrelated area. You can hide AirVisual entities with a simple hidden: true statement in customize.yaml.