MQTT Entities In Areas

[seandavidson (Sean)]

I am looking at putting my MQTT entities in areas created for my Home Assistant setup. I can’t seem to figure out how or if I can do this

[francisp (Francis)]

If the are auto-discovered, simply select them and put them in an area. If they are added manual to .yaml, you are out of luck. However, you can craft an auto-discovery message yourself, move them out of .yaml, and then add them to an area.

[seandavidson (Sean)]

Ok so it only works with auto discovery. Makes sense. I have them in the configuration file so I will decide if I want to move to auto discovery instead.

[123 (Taras)]

If you’re interested, I posted examples of scripts to create entities via MQTT Discovery:

Auto Discovery

Here’s an easy way to learn how MQTT Discovery works. Add these two scripts to your system: #script: example_create: alias: 'Create Example MQTT Light' sequence: service: mqtt.publish data: topic: 'homeassistant/light/example/config' retain: true payload: > { "name": "Example", "unique_id": "ABC123", "stat_t": "home/example", "cmd_t": "home/example/set", "bri_stat_t": "home/exampl…

Rapsberry Pi MQTT monitor

Instead of defining the sensors in YAML, you can use the following script to define them via MQTT Discovery. The advantage is that all of the sensors will be associated with a device (that’s the one thing you currently can’t do in YAML is define MQTT Sensors with a device). It’s a handy way to organize the sensors (they are all associated with a specific device) and also permits the creation of device-oriented automations. Modify the following script to suit your environment’s requirements: #s…

[theetron]

As Home Assistant is getting more and more user friendly, this should be something you can do in the GUI. I have a lot of mqtt devices/entities by using zigbee2mqtt. None of them are in areas at the moment, would be nice if it could.

[francisp (Francis)]

Zigbee2MQTT devices can be put in area’s through the GUI.

[theetron]

Thanks! I missed this completely.