Hey all, I recently updated my server to Electric Eel, and in the process had to recreate my Home Assistant instance (I don’t know why, by Home Assistant’s restore feature doesn’t work for me. )
I’ve been resetting my Inovelli switches and re-adding them to my new Zigbee network, and I noticed that as I’m adding switches, very little details seem to be populating on the default Home Assistant cards. Now, I know I need to be customizing my dashboard, and I plan to, but I just wanted to ask, is it normal that most of the parameters in Home Assistant don’t show up here? I’m asking because I want to make sure my Z2MQTT instance is configured properly.
Go under Settings - Devices & services - Devices and find your switch in that list.
Then under each section (Sensors, Configuration, and Diagnostics) you’ll see +X entities not shown. Click on that and you’ll see all the possible configuration options.
If you see one you want to enable, click on it, then click the little settings icon. You’ll have the option there to enable it.
Thanks for the reply, MRobi, but I think my question is a little different. In the screenshot I shared, the default card lists a number of sensors, i.e. DeviceBindNumber, InternalTemperature, Overheat, etc. What I’ve noticed is that after re-adding my switches to Home Assistant, many of these sensors now show as “Unknown.” The Energy sensor for most switches has eventually populated, but many other “sensors” are still marked as “Unknown.”
My question is, is this normal? Should these “sensors” be populated, or is this fine? As I mentioned earlier, I can’t remember if all these “sensors” showed up in my previous Home Assistant instance, so I’m just trying to verify everything’s working properly.
So the card on the dashboard points to entities. My guess here is if you’ve re-added the switches, the old entities are still present and your new entities now end with something like _1.
Go to the same spot I mentioned above and take a look at the entities on the device page. I’m guessing they’ll have the correct info there. And if you click on them, you’ll see the full path of the entity.
When I say re-added, I mean added on a totally new VM with a new Home Assistant instance, with a new instance of Mosquito Broker and Z2MQTT. In essence, I built this from the ground up. I do see all of the entities for a given switch. There are no duplicates, no _1s or anything like that.
It’s not a huge deal-breaker to me, as the majority of the sensors mean little to me anyways, this was just more of a sanity check to make sure my switches are configured properly. So far, they function fine within Home Assistant, I just thought it was off that the values I’m seeing in Z2MQTT are more accurate and up-to-date than anything I’m seeing in these cards.
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