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## What does this package do?
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This package creates a group of entities that have no value (a state of unknown or unavailable) and a sensor that provides a count of the entities in this group.
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This package creates a group of entities that have no value (a state of unknown or unavailable) and a sensor that provides a count of the entities in this group. This can help you discover entities which should to be disabled or deleted and help you identify misbehaving or failed devices.
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By default, entities belonging to disabled devices are ignored by the unavailable entities sensor. Entities belonging a devices labelled "Ignored" and individual entities labled "Ignored" are also ignored. The default label "Ignored" can be changed in the group.unavavailable_entities template. The label is not case sensitive.
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## How do I install it?
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### Ignore Specific Entities
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Uncomment the `group.ignored_unavailable_entities` declaration and add the entity_id's to ignore to the group entities list.
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To ignore specific entities, add them to the `group.ignored_unavailable_entities` declaration.
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### Ignore Matching Entities
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See [Home Assistant Templating](https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/templating/) for additional options.
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| map(attribute='entity_id') | list | sort }}
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## Using With Automations
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There is an example automation provided in the package that will display unavailable entities as a persistent notification. You can change this automation to meet your requirements. This automation is enabled by default. You can comment it out or delete it if not required.
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There is an example automation provided in the package that will display unavailable entities as a persistent notification. You can change this automation to meet your requirements. This automation is enabled by default. You can comment it out or delete it if not required. See the examples folder for more automations.
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## Display in the UI
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To display a list of unavailable entities open the more-info dialogue of group.unavailable_entities.
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