I’m brand new to this, so this might be a silly question. Basically, Hassio went off and auto-discovered 2 of my 3 Yeelights, although I couldn;t get it to auto find the 3rd. So, I gave them static IP addresses and added them into configuration.yaml
I can now see the three devices in Hass, although the original two are still there (Yeelight_rgb_xxxxx). How can I remove them?
Also, there is an automatic entry (gateway_light_xxxx) for the Xiaomi gateway. Is it possible to rename this?
It was a bit of a pain in the but, but I commented out the “discovery:” line in configuration.yaml, and set up everything manually and explicitly. My HA instance starts up faster and everything is much more reliable.
Hmm… now I need to add the 2 x google home devices manually.
I found a post saying these are just simple, like
media_player:
platform: cast
name: Whatever Name Home Mini
host: 192.168.0.21
However, I already have one media_player: (my TV). If I add another media_player section, I get an error… are all media_player’s supposed to be under the one heading? does that make sense?
for the issue with discovery, I reverted to this after previously having discovery turned off (and configuraing everything manually) because I noticed that without discovery on for media_players my Google Home groups would not show up.
I still have my Google Homes manually configured but had to leave the discovery on in order for HA to see the Google Home groups I had created in the GH app
They are just groups of devices in the Google Home app. So I have one that includes all of them, called ‘House’ which allows me to cast music to all rooms at once, in sync, easily. Unfortunately I found by trial and error that the media_player group of google cast devices disappears if discovery is not on, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to hard-code it in.