Integrations, Devices, and Areas

Hey all,

I’m still coming up to speed on Home Assistant and I wanted to check my understanding on some things.

I integrated an Ambient Weather weather station via the ambient_station Integration. For the most part, this works great. There are two issues, though.

  • My station includes several remote temp/humidity/pressure sensors. The readings from these appear as Entities (e.g. Sensors) under the single weather station Device and are thus assigned to the same Area, which is less than ideal compared to something like the Ecobee Integration, which creates separate Devices for the remote sensors, which can then be assigned to the correct Area.
  • I do not see any Entities associated with the air quality sensor.

For the first issue, is there any way to “move” an Entity into a different Area than its parent Device (I hope I said that correctly)?

Outside of that, am I correct that these issues are artifacts of the way the Integration was written? In other words, the Integration could be changed to create separate Devices for the remote sensors (like the Ecobee Integration) and, assuming the data is available via API, the air quality sensor data could be added.

Thanks!