How do I hide discovered devices/IPs/MAC

Installation Home Assistant OS
1

Hi all,

I have ALOT of devices being shown at the top of HA - all showing up as MAC addresses, and I have gone into the “known_devices.yaml” file and edited the entries to be a bit more friendly:

00231d314bc5:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 00:23:1D:31:4B:C5
name: MAIN PC
picture:
track: true
vendor: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.

My question is, how on earth do I hide this device without disabling discovery of new devices?

I have tried this with no result, still showing up “configuration.yaml”:

device_tracker:

  • platform: nmap_tracker
    hosts: 192.168.0.1/24
    home_interval: 30
    consider_home: 180
    track_new_devices: yes
    exclude:
    • 192.168.0.1
      device_tracker.00231d314bc5:
      hidden: true

Anyone have any ideas?

2

Take a look at the customize docs, specifically the hidden option. Setting a entity to hidden:true will prevent it from showing.

You and also setup static IPs for the devices you actually want to track and only track that range of IPs.

3

Thank you for the reply!

OK, I had a look at the link, and I am sure I am missing something - in my configuration.yaml file I did this:

homeassistant:

Name of the location where Home Assistant is running

name: SOMENAME

Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets

latitude: 12.123
longitude: 12.123

Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)

elevation: 0

metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial

unit_system: metric

Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

time_zone: Europe/London
customize:
** device_tracker.00231d314bc5:**
** hidden: true**

I am not sure I have the right entity, the above device_tracker.00231d314bc5 has been taken from the Developer Tools, Current Entities page. Is this right?

I considered the static IP route, but there are two devices that I cannot set static IPs for and would really prefer to do it the right way, any ideas?

I tried the above but no change. Any ideas?

4

I answered the question:

You can do it via the GUI - Configuration | Customization and then override.

The reason I could not see the changes, is because I am using a seperate costomize.yaml file and the changes you make in the GUI is written to the file!

Pretty Cool!

Thanks!

5

You can also set track: false for the device in your known_devices.yaml file.

6

I have absolutely no idea what your answer means…I want to hide device that are always home, I want to show only mobile devices. Can you elaborate on your solution please.

Thanks!

7

This thread is ancient but I’m going to reply because I was recently looking for a solution to hiding devices after adding the netgear integration. And i know how frustrating searching for information can be.

each device connected to my router appeared in the known_devices.yaml file. I changed track: true to false and restarted. this seems to hide them from everything in the HA UI.

pixel_1:
  name: OG Pixel
  mac: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
  icon:
  picture:
  track: false