Why is my automation to call homeassistant.update_entity failing with "extra keys not allowed @ data['device_id']"?

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Due to possible throttling issues on the API the Growatt integration uses, there’s an option to disable automatic polling and then allow you to poll less frequently. So I created what I thought would be the following very simple automation to get the two devices the integration provides to update at 15 min intervals:

alias: Update Device Automation
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: /15
condition: []
action:
  - service: homeassistant.update_entity
    target:
      device_id:
        - 27255d1a5e92a4cb5f1adb04ca80ffe6
        - f70f0d3dff46f49f1366aebe253b05aa
    data: {}
mode: single

This was created through the UI. But it doesn’t cause an update and the trace log shows:

Triggered by the time pattern at 5 May 2023 at 18:15:00
Home Assistant Core Integration: Update entity NWCTCH107G, Home solar Total
Stopped because an error was encountered at 5 May 2023 at 18:15:00 (runtime: 0.01 seconds)
extra keys not allowed @ data['device_id']

I’ve tried various options using the area and the devices, but only if I break them out to the individual entities themselves will it run. Why does the UI and some of the docs imply the device/area alone will work?
Home Assistant 2023.5.1
Supervisor 2023.04.1
Operating System 10.1
Frontend 20230503.2 - latest

Thanks for any pointers, I’ve searched and searched and found nothing that suggests I’m doing anything wrong…

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If you look at the documentation for this service you will see that only an entity_id may be specified:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homeassistant/#service-homeassistantupdate_entity

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The UI is non specific. There are different services that do allow areas or device ids to be specified. Always check the documentation.

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Thanks, the page that led me there (Service Calls - Home Assistant) and the UI gave me the impression it was the general case that all services could be called with either areas or devices not just entities. I did read the docs :slight_smile: