Stuck with Multiple Instances of Integration with One Device Each

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I am new to HA, I installed HASS OS. Hope I am posting this in the right place.

I set up an integration to control my 8 A/C units. The integration would only add one at a time and I didn’t see an option in home assistant to add more so I just kept clicking the “my.homeassistant” blue link button thing that redirects you over and over again to add all my units. But it created like a separate instance of the integration each time. How can I merge them into one? Whether that means doing it after the fact or having to go through the setup again. I don’t even know why I’m assistant lets you do this? Why would I ever want eight instances with one device each instead of one instance with eight devices?

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Thank you.

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This is not that uncoomon in integrations.
The integration is made for controlling just one device, so more devices means more instances of an integration.
Once you get to ESPHome you will get many more.

HA work on entities, so you will not really notice it, but I think the names should be differentiated, so you know which device’s entity you are controlling.
See if you can rename them and if not then you might have to remove and readd them.