[SOLVED] Can't figure out this grouping situation

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Hi All,

So I am kinda new to Home assistant and I am trying to setup my home assistant with Google Wifi to be able to monitor when someone is home or not.

I was looking at this thread: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/google-wifi-configuration/59093 and I cannot figure out how user [brendanheyu] get that nice grouping. In my case the google Wifi shows on top and not in the group with the speedtest stuff.

Any idea what is going on? I can share the config if needed.

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Hi,
grouping things is actually very easy. You have a file names groups.yaml in your Home Assistant, and there you add your groups and cards, like so:
image
Read the documentation here: Group - Home Assistant

Documentation TLDR:
name is the name of the card that will be displayed
view is to determine if you want it as a tab (Separate page)
entities are all devices that will be displayed in that card. You can also insert groups there.

The ids of the lights and stuff you determine when you set something up in configuration.yaml and give them names. The easiest way to find a name for a device is looking it up in the Configurator, on the left sidebar:
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Just click on one and it will add the id to the text
(Just be sure the spaces are right, because they matter.)

Easy as that.

Ahh, and if you also want some custom icons and texts for your devices, look up customize.yaml.
Read more here: Customizing entities - Home Assistant
(You don’t need to write it inside configuration.yaml, like in the documentation. You can skip to the customize.yaml file and begin customizing, like:)

switch.wemo_switch_2:
      friendly_name: Kitchen kettle
      icon: mdi:kettle
[ next here ]

Have fun :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the detailed information/reply. I will have to look into it a little later today but I wanted to share my current config as maybe you will see something obvious:

configuration.yaml

Google Wifi

sensor:

  • platform: google_wifi
    host: 192.168.xxx.xxx
    name: google_wifi

#SPEEDTEST
sensor speedtest:
platform: speedtest
minute: 30
hour:
- 0
- 2
- 4
- 6
- 8
- 10
- 12
- 14
- 16
- 18
- 20
- 22
monitored_conditions:
- ping
- download
- upload

groups.yaml
Internet:

  • sensor.primary.google_wifi_status
  • sensor.primary_google_wifi_uptime
  • sensor.primary.google_wifi_last_restart
  • sensor.primary_google_wifi_current_version
  • sensor.primary.google_wifi_local_ip
  • sensor.primary.google_wifi_new_version
  • sensor.speedtest_download
  • sensor.speedtest_upload
  • sensor.speedtest_ping

The speed test sensors are showing up in a group in the dashboard main body but the google wifi is showing up on top with the time and sun icon…

Thank you,

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I was able to solve my issue by re-creating the group in the groups.yaml file and also using a customization for the sensor. Now I only see the sensors I wanted, in the order I wanted and where I wanted them :slight_smile:

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