Allow the ability to create a custom device which can contain multiple entities. For example defining multiple entities for my smart meter’s MQTT feed results in multiple entities, however it would be great to pull these all together under a single device.

Hasn’t this now been implemented? I think this WTH should be closed/completed. And the way I read the PR, it looks like it’s always been supported but that the docs were wrong. Correct device description for MQTT platforms home-assistant:current ←…

imo it can be achieved but only for entities created using mqtt discovery. And to be honest, I gave no idea why this limitation. btw vote on your own WTH

duplicate Miss read, changing title. [image] WTH we still cannot merge/add entities into devices manually? Month of "What the heck?!" We still have to fight with hundreds of entities around HA. Where is the possibility of adding them to devices? [image] …

[image] maxym: And to be honest, I gave no idea why this limitation. The idea is that devices can only be automatically created. I get the idea, but don’t agree with it. It would be nice to have the ability to add custom devices to any integration.

MQTT already support this. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.mqtt/#device

? Only works through MQTT discovery and when unique_id is set

So what? Still supports it. Exactly what OP was asking about.

if you mean add discovery entries just to create devices, then yes. Following this logic we could drop yaml for mqtt at all replacing with discovery entirely. I believe OP meant to add ability to create device via yaml configuration. And tbh why not? there are attributes for that ready to use.

Only works for discovery not manually created :frowning:

I voted for this WTH but here’s a workaround from 123 which is just using the MQTT discovery feature but the device and entities are still “manually” created [image] Manually add MQTT Entities Third party integrations 1. Create an MQTT Light using a script Assuming you ha…

I also voted for that - I did see the script, but couldn’t get my head around how I could fit a bunch of entities from my smart meter under a light… then gave up as too much faff.

Why can't we create custom MQTT devices?

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mekaneck (Rick) October 9, 2022, 1:35pm 12

I voted for this WTH but here’s a workaround from 123 which is just using the MQTT discovery feature but the device and entities are still “manually” created