From 8717eb9f8fac923c3a9c9a4bc733d87f1ca29660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DubhAd Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:16:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Minor changes (#5990) Taking out the "new and experimental" note - we're a dozen releases on, it's hardly new and seems to be (from a feature sense) stable. Re-written para 2 to reflect that HA needs shut down, and that 0.75 introduced the "future" UI. Re-written the supported components list because it's horribly out of date, and without trawling the code it's impossible to know what's supported. --- .../_docs/configuration/entity-registry.markdown | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_docs/configuration/entity-registry.markdown b/source/_docs/configuration/entity-registry.markdown index b6183f7b76b..2f29afc306c 100644 --- a/source/_docs/configuration/entity-registry.markdown +++ b/source/_docs/configuration/entity-registry.markdown @@ -9,17 +9,14 @@ sharing: true footer: true --- -

-This is a new and experimental feature of Home Assistant. -

- Starting with version 0.63, Home Assistant keeps a registry of known entities. The entity registry makes sure that entities get unique identifiers and allow customizing the identifiers and names of these entities. -As this is still a very new part of Home Assistant, changes will require a -restart of Home Assistant to take effect. A config user interface will be added -in a future version. +Changes require that Home Assistant is shut down when you edit the file, otherwise +Home Assistant may over-write your changes, and a restart of Home Assistant is +required for your changes to take effect. Version 0.75 introduced a configuration +user interface.

An entity needs to have a unique ID to be registered in the entity registry. @@ -55,5 +52,6 @@ value to each entry. {% linkable_title Supported Components %} -At the moment, only the following components are supported: Z-Wave, Hue, Nest, LIFX, Sonos, Apple TV, Weather Underground +Only components that provide a unique ID for entities will are supported. + Note that for Weather Underground, second and subsequent Personal Weather Station ID (pws_id) will have their monitored conditions suffixed with an index number.