I paced bluetooth low energy in my config yaml and it found a lot of device tracker entities. They do not have unique IDs and cannot be edited. I removed ble from my config and restarted, but the entities are still there. How can I remove them? I haven’t used any in automations. Thanks.

I deleted them from known_devices and, after a couple of restarts, they went away.

Maybe this is of any help: [image] Unable to delete zigbee device Zigbee You can try the following: make a backup of ‘core.device_registry’ and ‘core.entity_registry’ Both can be found in …/config/.storage Unique ID’s are the ‘config_entries’ and the name, for example ‘…

Are they listed in Configuration → Devices and Services → Entities? If they are, look at the icon in the entity’s rightmost column. If it’s a red dot with an exclamation mark, click it and the resulting popup should offer a Delete button.

They are listed in Settings>Devices>Entities, but the icon is of a lined-through pencil, indicating read-only.

These are not listed in either registry, example of one being ble_01_9b_ae_e2_c9_eb. They are listed in a file called known_devices.yaml, which I thought was being deprecated. Should I delete them from there?

I don’t have any file named ‘known_devices.yaml’ is there any other fix?

I experience the same problem, especially after updates or reboots. However, I have found a solution for myself, combining the different recommendations here in the board. I’ll try to summarize: I try to identify the unwanted entities by their name in the database, especially entities with _2 or _…

I was just struggling with this too with a template fan that I had in config.yaml. What finally worked for me: Add the template entity (or at least something that will have the same entity ID) back to the yaml file it came from. Then do a “quick reload” of the yaml configurations. (A full restar…

Isn’t there an integration or hacs / add-on that finds inconsistencies in code/orphaned items?

On a related topic, I also activated the bluetooth BLE device tracker and I now have hundreds of entities that I am stuck with. I’d love to say I’m exaggerating, but I can barely believe it myself. There are literal hundreds of entities. Any idea how to bulk delete them?

check if you have the “known_devices.yaml” They come from this file delete them and you should be good. Check the device_tracker settings and ensure it doesn’t add new devices, otherwise it will add every car and drivers phone and any other device with bluetooth enabled that drives by at your hous…

How to remove unwanted entities?

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