Zwave Sensor Hide

Configuration Z-Wave
1

OK, I give up. Trying to hide my alarm type badge. So confused. Tried:

zwave:
customize:
sensor.__alarm_type_3_0:
hidden: true
…in the configuration.yaml file, no deal.

Tried the same thing in my zwave_device_config.yaml file - no deal.
Tried simply adding hidden: true under:

sensor.__alarm_level_3_1:
ignored: false
polling_intensity: 1
hidden: true

Nothing works - some configurations cause errors - some simply ignore. From reading about customize, it looks like the option has changed recently.

Question - how do I hide a zwave sensor?

2

See the new Z-wave customize syntax here: https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/02/25/config-panel-and-state-restoration/

3

Ah, the magic of posting a question - solved it myself.

Had to put the “customize” sensor in the configuration.yaml in the homeassistant: section, and use the proper “Entity ID”

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4

ignored: true in zwave device_config is preferred to hidden: true in customize.

hidden: true just hides the device from the UI.
ignored: true gets rid of it completely.

5

Neither of these seems to work for me in any form, my expectation is that I hide and ignore and it is gone from the interface, that is what this is doing right?

homeassistant:
  customize:
    binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor_7_0_1:
      hidden: true
  customize_glob:
    "binary_sensoor.garagedooropener*":
      hidden: true

or

zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
  device_config:
    binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor_7_0_1:
      ignored: true
  device_config_glob:
    "binary_sensor.garagedooropener*":
      ignored: true

I stil have the senor, it is not hidden or ignored. Any ideas?

The details of the sensor:

new entity id
binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor
old entity id
binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor_7_0
value instance
1
value index
0
node id
7

thanks for your help

6

I think I Have figured it out, I was fooled by the configuration reload features in the UI, once I restart on the OS leve things seem to change.

one thing i could not do is reference and disable an individual sensor on the same device, there is:

binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor
and
binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor_2

binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor:
  ignored: true

disabled both and

binary_sensor.garagedooropener_sensor_2:
  ignored: true

disables nothing. Thoughts?