MQTT non-autodiscovery lights/switches as devices?

[123 (Taras)]

It doesn’t matter if it supports auto-discovered or not. Instead of configuring lights in YAML (what you are currently doing) you can configure them via MQTT Discovery with a script. That’s how I have configured several dozen entities consisting of lights, sensors, binary_sensors, climate, lock, etc. I provided an example here:

MQTT auto discovery isn't working, but messages are visible

Yes. The ‘6 devices’ and ‘56 entities’ reported by the MQTT Integration were all created via MQTT Discovery. [Screenshot from 2020-08-21 12-12-40] Previously, I had defined them in configuration.yaml. However, you cannot define devices this way, only through MQTT Discovery. So I scrapped all the MQTT-based entities I had in the config file and created scripts to generate them via MQTT Discovery. Here’s a fragment of one script that creates binary_sensors (just the first binary_sensor is sho…