How to identify binary sensors in my setup?

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I have a few devices setup with HA including my Wink Hub and under states I have a couple binary sensors with my name and have no idea what they are.

What’s the easiest way to identify them?

Thanks!

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The easiest method to solve issues after reading the documentation is to search this forum and if nothing is found, post a question like you did.

The state page shows ll entities and their current state including state attributes. Hit one of the entities and change their state on the top of the page. (actually device state doesn’t change and the entity will return to its real state in a few seconds)

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Unfortunately your rely does not help me indetify those entities.

Thank you anyways.

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Can you post details of the entities?

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@Tinker3433 All I see are

binary_sensor.MYNAME (state: off, Hidden: true)
binary_sensor.MYNAME_2 (state: off)

binary_sensor.MYWIFENAME (state: off, Hidden: true)
binary_sensor.MYWIFENAME_2 (state: off, hidden: true)

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There’s nothing under Attributes on the right?

How did you install Home Assistant? The next step will be to search the log files for those devices.

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All I see for attributes are described above (state: off, Hidden: true, etc.). The log doesn’t show anything about them.

I installed Home Assistant using the manual method for my Raspberry Pi.

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If you’re using systemd to start it, then use journalctl -u home-assistant -n 10000|egrep "binary_sensor.MYNAME|binary_sensor.MYWIFENAME"

If that still doesn’t find it, please provide details of all the components you’re using.

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@Tinkerer journalctl doesn’t show anything. I am using Wink, Google platform, Amcrest, Nest and Harmony Hub. None of the components have anything with our name in them.

Sorry for the delay in replying. Thanks!

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One of those components is responsible for creating those entities. I’m surprised that there’s nothing in the log, but one option is to disable half of them (I’d start with Nest and Wink). If the entities remain then it’s one of the others, if they’re gone then its one of those. Once you’ve found the half that’s responsible, re-enable them one at a time until they return and you know the component.

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