IKEA Tradfri: Ignoring groups?

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Hi

After updating HomeAssistant to 0.44.2 (The change happened in 0.44.1) HomeAssistant is now seeing groups from my IKEA Tradfri controller. Is there any way to disable this feature, as groups will show up in Emulated Hue and Homebridge (Which I don’t really want to happen).

Thanks

2

Hi there!

You can just hide them by putting the following code in your configuration.yaml under customize:

customize:
  light.livingroom:
    hidden: true

Just find the names of the groups under Developer Tools > States.

3

Hey,

thanks for the reply, but with your workaround the groups are only hidden in the HA-UI. Emulated Hue and Homebridge are getting this “devices” though :frowning:

4

Ah, sorry! I misunderstood this then.

Edit: I just found this in the docs for the emulated hue:

# Example customization
homeassistant:
  customize:
    light.bedroom_light:
      # Don't allow light.bedroom_light to be controlled by the emulated Hue bridge
      emulated_hue: false

Does this help you somehow?

5

That feature works, but not really a fix, this allows people to ignore individual entities (I’m using that feature as a temporary “fix”). But the feature I really want is to be able to ignore groups from these devices completely in HASS like the Hue (Not emulated Hue) does.

I’m guessing this hasn’t been added yet, I’m gonna write a request for the feature to get added on GitHub.

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I’m also experiencing this ‘issue’. HA sees the TRÅDFRI group as a light, which is causing inconsistencies in my automation (group.all_lights now also contains this light). I probably have to alter my automations as I think this change has been made on purpose. But it would be nice to ignore groups with a parameter.

7

I think it this option will be part of the next update, in the repository of HA was a commit facing this issue yesterday

8

True, I created this change and it is going to be a part of the 0.45 release.

To enable the feature when 0.45 is released, use this in your configuration.yaml:

tradfri:
  allow_tradfri_groups: False
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