Removing devices that were discovered automatically

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Hello,

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?

thanks,

2

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.

3

Awesome, thanks Steve. I’ll do that. Kinda prefer to manually manage my devices anyway.

4

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?

5

You will need to add each one individually under media_player: (ie: list each one under platform: cast)

media_players.yaml

  - platform: cast
    name: Kitchen Home
    host: 192.168.0.21
  - platform: cast
    name: Bedroom Home
    host: 192.168.0.22
  - platform: cast
    name: Lounge Home
    host: 192.168.0.23
  - platform: cast
    name: Lounge Speakers
    host: 192.168.0.82

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.

config.yaml

discovery:
  ignore:
    - yeelight
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6

Great! I can actually leave discovery on (saves me adding Google Home’s manually), and just tell it to ignore the Yeelights. That’s neat, thank you.

7

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

8

Got ya. Are the groups like rooms?

What do you use them for?

9

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.