How do I remove Z-wave sensor entities?

Hi - something that has annoyed me forever is all the sensor entities that are created when I add a Z-wave device. Many of them don’t work, and most of them I don’t care about. But I can’t figure out how to get rid of them - they clutter up the GUI and take up space (and performance) in the history / logbook database.

For example, when I add an Aeotec nano dimmer, I get all of the following, none of which I need or want.

I’ve tried removing them from the inbuilt entity registry, but they reappear at next hass restart.

I’ve also tried excluding them in the Z-wave config area, but this does nothing at all:

And I’ve tried both together, but they just keep coming back.

It’s very annoying - our electrician will soon be installing a large number of these, and I really don’t want to have to put up with all the crap that will be generated.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Nick

The “Exclude this entity from Home Assistant” writes into a file named zwave_device_config.yaml. It expects that you’ve included this in your config.

See:

See also:

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Goodness - that was subtle. But thanks!

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