I took the plunge and got a Hue Bridge to run some coloured lamps (all my Z-Wave stuff is module based, so dims only).
So far, so good. But I also picked up a Hue Plug with it. The intention is to use these to control more than just lights - I have a fan, warming drawer, etc that I’d like to automate, and these are a pretty cheap, non-Wifi solution for doing that.
However, Home Assistant sees them as lights. It also means Google Home sees them as lights, which they are not. I can’t just manually change them from light.
to switch.
as that’s not supported. Is it possible to somehow override these entities in Home Assistant to be switches?
I was thinking of creating some kind of second entity, syncing the states and then hiding this light one? But not sure how to do it. Thanks!