IKEA Vindstyrka deactivated by config entry / deactivated by device - how to enable?

[tonih (Toni)]

Hey everyone,
I just got myself an Ikea Vindstyrka Sensor and I’ve managed to connect it to deCONZ and its also shown in Phoscon. Homeassistant however tells me that the device is disabled by some config entry and I have absolutely no clue what config entry could be meant by that… I can also read the measured values in deconz perfectly fine. I’ll include some Screenshots down below (Sorry the HomeAssistant one is in German)

Thank you for the help already!

[tonih (Toni)]

I’ve found a solution to the problem… In case anybody else has this in the future I’ll try my best to explain my troubleshooting:

While trying to connect the Sensor to deconz i had some issues at first. Due to this I’ve tried setting up ZHA and connecting the sensor via the ZHA integration. As this had worked i wanted to see if its shown in deconz too, which it was.
Then I disabled the ZHA integration and by that the entitys and the device were disabled in the core.device_registry and core.entry_registry files. I managed to enable them by following these two comments on other threads:

Old deleted devices in .storage\core.device_registry

Hi, I think it’s safe to do. I just did these three steps: SSH into Home Assistant; and, execute the below command first: ha core stop Edit config/.storage/core.device_registry in a code editor; where the last few lines look something like this: ... ], "deleted_devices": [] } } Execute the below command again via SSH: ha core start

ZHA - device disabled by config entry

I’ve had the same thing happen with my Onvif cameras. You could delete the devices and re-add them, but in my situation, there was no way to delete the cameras. The only other solution I’ve found is to manually go into the .config/storage folder and editing one or more of the following files: core.config_entries, core.device_registry, and core.entity_registry. Start with the core.config_entries file and search for your device, and change the "disabled_by": "config_entry" entries to "disabled_…

I connected to Homeassistant via SSH and edited the corresponding lines from deactivated_by: "config" (or device) to deactivated_by: null

I hope this will be useful to somebody else.

Btw: the sensor is working really well and reacting almost instantly

[Gnat54 (Nat Herold)]

Did you use it off the shelf, or did you do the physical hack that was being touted a couple of years ago as well?

[tonih (Toni)]

This sensor is a different one. This doesn’t need to be physically modified as it comes with zigbee onboard. I bought it, connected it to power and then to my zigbee network

VINDSTYRKA Luftqualitätssensor, smart

[Gnat54 (Nat Herold)]

Right. Now I remember. Last time I looked ( a few months ago) it was out stock in the U.S.