Missing devices/entities from Lights overview dashboard

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I like the new auto-populated Overview dashboard, it saves a lot of time for new installations. But it seems to “break” easily and I can’t figure out how to fix/reset it.

In the first screen shot you’ll see the Overview dashboard and in it has an area called Front Foyer:

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Within that area there is a light switch:

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Yet when I click on the Lights Overview, the Front Foyer area does not show up:

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I’ve looked around everywhere I can’t figure out how to reset or edit the view so that it shows up in the Lights dashboard.

What am I missing?

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Those dashboards are generated by a view strategy, you cannot edit them.

“Ceiling light” is a switch entity… Most likely, the strategy that generates that Dashboard View specifically retrieves entities in the light domain.

There are multiple options to create a light entity linked to the existing switch entity:

  1. Use the “Show As” feature in the entity’s Settings.
  2. Manually set up a “Change device type of a switch” Helper.
  3. Create a Template Light (this can be done in the UI through the Helper menu or in YAML).

If there are no light entities assigned to the Front Foyer Area, there is no reason for that area to be represented in the View.

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Yep, that was it. What I don’t understand is that why were all my other zwave wall dimmers/switches shown as lights except for this one? In my other wall switches there isn’t even an option to change the “show as”. Seems like something is inconsistent in how entities get created initially.

Thanks for the assistance!

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As I understand it, that is normally going to be set by the firmware installed by the manufacturer or perhaps by integration defaults. It seems reasonable that a manufacturer would classify dimmers switches as lights, since that is the most likely use for them. I don’t use ZWave, but with Zigbee devices, especially the smart relays, I have occasionally had devices that come into HA as a light even though they are really a switch.

I believe “Show As” is only available for entities in domains with more than one device class, so light entities would not qualify. And, unlike switches, there isn’t a "Light as X/ Change device type of a light” integration.