Move entit(y|ies) to new area without moving the entire device, and all its associated entities

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So I recently added another zigbee relay to my garage to compete the automation setup I started for it a while back, and created a zigbee group of the 2 relays.

My garage has two sets of lights, operated by their own switch, located at two separate ends of the garage, so I wanted to let both switches turn on ALL the lights.

My plan was to create a zigbee group of those relays, and automate that.

That’s when I ran into an issue. The zigbee controller (zbt-1) created an entity for the group.

But the entity is attached to the controller. So if I try to move that into the Garage area, it moves the entire controller there. Which isn’t a problem now, but may be if I create more groups of relays elsewhere in the house.

So, for now, I deleted the zigbee group, and added the relays to a switch helper in HA, and set up automations to have the two relays match each other when either is toggled by the physical switch. (Which is a whole other thing, I expected a switch group to mimic that with no need for additional automations, but maybe that’s just too much to expect.)

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Entities can be in whatever area they want.

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Unchecked that and you get to pick another. This trick is particularly helpful for media players that are part of another device such as a VPE.

A mod will come and close this as done shortly

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Ah, I misunderstood that toggle to be “don’t put this in an area at all” interesting. Thanks.