Make group status an option

This is a feature request to make the group status text optional.

For example, when I group different types of sensors together (for example: a plant sensor will give light, moisture, etc.), the overall group item shows up as “Unknown”. I’d like to remove that text entirely for groups where a “summed” status doesn’t make sense.

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/24517781/24326795/ed3a8f08-1173-11e7-9068-5d9d98d221d1.png

This is interesting - don’t think that’s a generic issue.
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I don’t have a single group that shows an overall status where I use different units - mine all look similar to this:

What is the component you’re using here?

It’s a Mi Flora plant sensor. It creates a sensor output for each output type, and the card is for a group of all the sensors.

Very odd that this isn’t a consistent issue…

It looks like it doesn’t show status until you click on the card. Then if there’s a light, status defaults to a toggle. Otherwise, either unknown or something else?

I tried with my miflora sensors and got the same thing. Never noticed since I never clicked on the card. I don’t have an answer for you but I am seeing the same thing.

I’ve noticed this also happens on the https://www.home-assistant.io/demo/ page; The groups “Script” and “Scene” don’t have a clickable title but the user-made “Cooking” group can be clicked and displays a useless “Cooking Unknown.” It’s a minor cosmetic issue.

I would almost say the “Controls: Hidden” option should hide the group status if the status is unknown.

I’m guessing it’s the way groups are originally intended as a backend tool (thus defaults as an entitie) and have been hacked into a way of making frontend cards.
Is this something that will fixed by the Lovelace UI concept?