I’m currently experimenting with all the different gateways. The idea of having my Zigbee network decoupled from HA is lucrative, so Zigbee2MQTT is an option I’m trying as well.
I would ideally want a “file-as-configuration” set-up, where I specify all the devices in my network, and a completely new HA install would add them because they are exposed via the Z2M gateway. In other words, I want discovery OFF for maximum flexibility.
However I noticed that when discovery is off, no devices are ever added to HA. Instead, you expose each entity of a device separately, and there is no grouping between them whatsoever (unless you create a group manually, also via yml files).
Is there an option to have the cake and eat it too? Expose device-per-device, through config-files, and still get entities belonging to the same device to show be grouped like so?
For example the Aqara temperature sensor exposes: temperature, humidity, etc…I’d like to have those grouped under the same device in the UI while NOT using MQTT in discovery mode.
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