WTH Delete devices from GUI

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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Nobody mentioned ASUSWRT devices here.
There is a use case here:

  • my iPhone 5S was added as a device «iPhone 5S» with device_tracker.iphone_5s;
  • then I had to restore my iPhone, now it is called «iPhone» - and a new device “iPhone” is created with device_tracker.iphone ;
  • then I renamed my phone back to «iPhone 5S»;
  • now I need to remove that extra «iPhone» device (which is always «Away») - and cannot do it via GUI.
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This is my problem.
I am migrating devices from tuya integration to local tuya one at a time. However, I can not delete each device as I migrate it because that seems to be not supported by the tuya integration. Super inconvenient

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Then there is a solution:

You delete a device in Deconz.

Then you add it in ZHA, it appears Deconz + ZHA

You delete it from ZHA and it deletes it from Deconz

You add it again in ZHA and it is OK

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This did the trick. Thanks!

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This works perfectly

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The thinking from the devs’ side seems to be that integrations should be allowed to stuff devices and entities down HA users’ throats whether said devices/entities add any value to the user’s experience or not. If an integration adds devices it shouldn’t, fine; that’s a bug and it should be reported to the codeowner. Meanwhile, users are stuck with non-functional devices they don’t want without any means of remedying the situation themselves.

Dear HA dev-team, I love you guys and admire your work immensely, but I just don’t understand this one. Please allow us to curate or own collection of devices and entities.

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48

You should be taking this up with the integration in question. You can delete or remove discovered devices if the integration itself set it up to do so.

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thank you for this!