My UI is a complete mess, need to re-do

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Hi all. I was reasonably happy with my layout both the Web interface and the mobile app.
Since the last upgrade that deprecated view and control from groups, it’s a hideous mess. I used to have items in the default view group show up at the top. Now, my groups are all still there, but there are 100s of entities at the top of the page. Even things that I don’t want to see ever are showing up (media player stuff etc.) And there are groups I didn’t configure showing up. And groups like group.all_lights that are set to hidden in customize.yaml are appearing.
So, I need to fix this. What’s the best way to go about it? I’ve never done any Lovelace config, should I scrap groups and custom configure Lovelace? Are there any guides to configuring the look and feel?

Also, I really want to get rid of, and never see again a bunch of entities. ANY media player. TV, Amazon Echo, Roku, Sonos. Just a personal preference, I don’t want them in HA. I have them set to ignore in the discovery section, but they insist on showing up.

Thanks!

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You don’t need to scrap any groups you use for non-frontend views but any that are only used for a view then they are worthless.

you have two choices.

either use the default lovelace view (which as of right now you are and don’t like) or “take control” of your lovelace config and do it manually.

You have the options of doing it thru the UI or in yaml mode. I personally like yaml mode. I feel I have better control and it is very similar to doing it the old states ui way.

That’s easy. Just don’t include them in any of your lovelace views. But of course they will still be entities in your states page.

Have you tried to remove them in the entity registry page?

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Thanks. Every time I went to take control, it talked me out of it :slight_smile:
I made a backup, and went for it.
Looks like that solves most of my issues.

I will remove some integrations, and try to delete some of these entities.