How can I delete devices I dont want in HA?

[KennethLavrsen]

I tried to take this issue with a tad of humor in a similar thread

WTH Delete devices from GUI

The activity I hoped for was a simple acknowledgement of the bug being a real bug that will eventually be addressed. Q: How many Home Assistant users does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. We just tell the users to buy a new lamp and throw the old one in the corner of the living room? Q: How many hours does it take to replace a light bulb? A: 30 hours and 1 minute. 1 minute to replace the physical light bulb and 30 hours to read the entire official deConz thread on the forum. Q: How …

That said

When you have deleted a device from Deconz you can run the service

deconz.remove_orphaned_entries

And then boot HA.

That should get rid of it

But there are still many integrations that leave garbage behind and it is still a major flaw in the generic HA UI that you cannot force a device deletion.

I find myself editing the .storage files at least once every 2nd month. There is always something that is broken that I can only remove this way.

Before anyone does this ALWAYS make backup of the files and watch out for the commas. Note that the last item in a list does not end with a comma in the json files. If you forget HA will not start. Any error in the JSON and HA will not start.