Ignoring sensors from ISY994

Configuration
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I am trying to have Home Assistant ignore all of the sensors coming from the ISY994. They are all climate sensors, from the climate module, which i have disabled in the ISY, but for some reason Home Assistant is picking them up. I know how to hide them in HA, but I assume it would be better to have HA ignore them all together.

I am trying to use the ignore_string in https://www.home-assistant.io/components/isy994/
but I am not having any luck.

isy994:
  host: http://13.13.13.3:80
  username: !secret shortusername
  password: !secret password
  ignore_string: sensor

Everything I want HA to ignore begins with sensor. except for one scene that can not be deleted in the ISY called auto_dr

Can anyone explain how the ignore_string is supposed to be formatted so that I can have HA ignore these entities

Thanks

2

I did this once and can’t say for sure…I also can’t test for you right now, but I think you just do:

ignore: sensor

3

Thanks for the response

If i put in ignore: sensor when I check the config, it returns an error saying “ignore” is an invalid option.

When I entered what I had, checking the config returned no errors, but obviously was not working as i was expecting

4

Well I would check for you, but I’ve run across the issue where HA says my isy config is invalid even though all I did was restart.
So if you don’t mind me asking why do you even have the isy component if you want to ignore all of the sensors you have?

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I need to use the ISY component because I have 15 insteon dimmer switches, and trying to sort through insteonplm documentation only confused me. The sensors Im trying to ignore are all from the ISY’s climate module, which I have disabled on the ISY, but for some reason, HA is picking them up and they all display a value of 0.

I have some insteon motion sensors that i would like to not ignore, but they show up as binary_sensor so im hoping i can find a way to have HA only ignore the climate sensors

Are you not able to check your config file?

6

Looks like an enable_climate option was added.

7

Can anyone verify how this is supposed to work? As mentioned above, the below does not seem to have any effect (which is to ignore everything in the ISY folder named “unused”.

isy994:
  host: http://192.168.0.10:80
  username: myusername
  password: mypasswd
  # This stuff shouldn't be visible in HA?
  ignore_string: "unused"

And I just don’t know what to make of this line in the doc (at: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/isy994/)

Default value: {“IGNORE ME”=>nil}

Can anyone provide a working example of how to ignore ISY stuff?

Thanks,
Bob

8

Try removing the double quotation marks. Here is what works in my configuration file:

ignore_string: Auto DR

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It would be wonderful if documentation had actual yaml EXAMPLES so we didn’t have to guess at this stuff!!
In this case it’s even wrong. The docs don’t show a “:” after ignore_string. HA can be frustrating with lack of documentation standards.