If it’s a basic switch you are making it WAY harder than it needs to be by not using MQTT discovery.
I know it is a ‘little extra step’, but i wanted to have it manually configured both to learn how to create components myself, have more control and reuse ‘knowledge’ to later configure more complex devices.
Are there any drawback of doing it this way?
Not that I know of… I switched from full manual originally and I just use discovery now. Way less complicated but I only use pretty basic switches. No need to complicate those and you can always use some with MQTT discovery and manually configure others if needs be.
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