Why is there a "Bulk Hide" option but not a "Bulk Unhide" option for entities?

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I am still trying to figure out this whole ecosystem (been using it for a month or so now). I have 60-70 devices (got a bunch of new zigbee devices). And I get all kinds of entity objects for each one. But they were also showing on my Dashboard and I didn’t want all the extra noise so I used the bulk “Hide” option by checking the box next to a bunch of them.

But I think I want them back now because things aren’t syncing to Alexa the way I expected. But if I want to go re-enable all 367 of them, I have to individually click each entity and do 4 separate clicks to enable each one. That’s well over 1,400 clicks to enable things. There has to be a better way…???

I’m hoping I’m just missing something obvious here. There’s a bulk Enable and Disable. Then a Hide, but did the Unhide just not get included for some reason?

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+1 for this. I have over 3000 entities of which about 700 are hidden but useful. Impossible to individually unhide them one by one.

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Found a way. Edit the core.entity_registry (Take a backup first please)
replace all: “hidden_by”: “user” with “hidden_by”: null
Save it and restart Home Assistant.
Worked for me but this will unhide all previously manually hidden entities. It will not unhide system hidden entities.

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Hi could you tell me where I would find core.entity_registry please.

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The core.entity_registry file is found in config/.storage. I had to look it up myself and maybe this helps others :slight_smile:

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Wonderful! Thanks!
I needed to enable a big bunch of disabled_by entities, and it worked flawless.