WTH Is it not possible to group sensors based on class and area?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Say I have several plant sensors that give me the temperature. I can group these sensors and get an average per room.

But occasionally I will move a plant to another room. Now I have to update every group that contained this sensor.

Wouldn’t it be just easier to be able to group all sensors based on their class and their device area — and update them once the area of the device changes?

The Area card seems to do that, but it doesn’t seem to be able to be replicated elsewhere.

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Be careful what you wish for… my Kitchen area card says its 45°F (7.2°C) because of the fridge and freezer temps. :smile: The card doesn’t have any mechanism to exclude entities. The only option is to remove the area designation from those entities… but that would break other things.

It’s not a fully UI solution, but you can use Labels for things like this. They’re easy to change and can be used in a template sensor to generate data for the group.