@willh wrote:
Getting started with MQTT lights and after setting up one, I checked Configuration > Entities and was confused it wasn’t there. I later added a unique_id property to the yaml config and now it appears in Entities.
I guess HA just makes do without a unique id but why not make that property required and then the entity_id could be based on that instead of Name (which is usually the friendly name, no?) not to mention that without a unique_id, name and entity cannot be configured through the UI. Might also help if some of this was mentioned in the docs.
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