Wow. Sounds familiar to me. I've had for over a year, run an automation which collects the entities in my setup and generate a list of missing entities, a list of battery levels for all wireless devices, and a list of link quality indicator for all of the Zigbee devices. Didn't know about this integration.
cheers fella got me to sort out my missing , think you had the same issue with dwains , hiding them caused issues "120 of em " so went into the dwains configs and deleted them sorted more manageable , btw never had repair center ever work for me ,
let me check it and will let you know the outcome. What I am thinking though is: there is a missing bit in the entire HA documentation for the beginners like: "make sure you start properly, because 1 year later you will get lost" ;-) I spent entire Saturday to redo my ESPhome yaml files from "per node file" to "packages" - but it was really worth it! Similarly I would probably do with naming conventions etc for the other things on my HA
@@mostlychris no, not related. What I was saying that after 2 years HA becomes a mess and tools like watchman help to sort it out. But if I started few years ago with proper approach, I would have probably had less mess today. And cleaning is more difficult than making properly from the beginning. ;-)
Yes I am also interested in fixing this, stuff. Great explanation how to detect everything but to make this video complete I would extended this with the actual explanation how to get rid of the actual problems 🙏🏼
The issue with fixing these is that there are many different problems that could have many different solutions based on each individual setup. There is a point in which the videos get too long and I have to find a stopping point. My fix for the issues that I found may not apply to others so the idea here is to provide a way to identify the problems. There are probably some common fixes that may fix some common issues and that would have been helpful. Thanks for the feedback.
One thing to watch, though. It appears to complain when some of your downloaded, but not configured, HACS intengrations have "missing" entities. I've seeen it listing ones that don't have a "friendly name" entry set up.
I am interested in trying Watchman - running HA Supervisor -2022.12.1 / HA 2023.1.6 - ( vm with Proxmox ) but Watchman does not show in " Integrations" as an addon. Any thoughts to solve?
Do you have HACS installed? Did you download it through HACS? Restart HA? Add the Integration within HA's Integration page afterward? Step 1. Go into HACS (install that, if you don't have it). Integrations> +Explore & Download Repositories [Watchman] Step 2. Restart HA Step 3. Settings>Devices & Services (Integrations)> +Add Integration [Watchman] Hope this helps!
Really? I installed on two different HA devices. Other than having to wait when it started up, it was fine. I wonder if there is something you have installed that is causing an issue.
@@mostlychris Well, currently the raspi does not even start HA anymore and I have to find the time to add the device to keyboard and screen. Have no idea what is going on!
@@thomasbecker7381 Well that sucks. I need to see exactly what the resources are for watchman. I wonder if it is just too much for a lower powered device.
Nice video, Chris. I was overwhelmed when it reported 34! But 500+? Jeez. Thank you.
Yeah.. I'm still working through those. 4 or 5 years of HA and adding/deleting things.
Thanks for showing how to actually fix it
Wow. Sounds familiar to me. I've had for over a year, run an automation which collects the entities in my setup and generate a list of missing entities, a list of battery levels for all wireless devices, and a list of link quality indicator for all of the Zigbee devices. Didn't know about this integration.
cheers fella got me to sort out my missing , think you had the same issue with dwains , hiding them caused issues "120 of em " so went into the dwains configs and deleted them sorted more manageable , btw never had repair center ever work for me ,
I'm still working on getting rid of the rest of mine that are orphaned. Repair center is automatic and should point out things it knows about.
This should totally be built in :D
The HA repair center is a start. As that evolves, more stuff will be identified.
Great video - been using Watchman for some time but the markdown cards are awesome!
Thanks!
let me check it and will let you know the outcome. What I am thinking though is: there is a missing bit in the entire HA documentation for the beginners like: "make sure you start properly, because 1 year later you will get lost" ;-)
I spent entire Saturday to redo my ESPhome yaml files from "per node file" to "packages" - but it was really worth it! Similarly I would probably do with naming conventions etc for the other things on my HA
I did not have many - just 200, but sorted out and left with < 5 that are genuine, i.e. smart plug is out of the socket
So you re-did the ESPHome files based on the watchman report?
@@mostlychris no, not related. What I was saying that after 2 years HA becomes a mess and tools like watchman help to sort it out. But if I started few years ago with proper approach, I would have probably had less mess today. And cleaning is more difficult than making properly from the beginning. ;-)
@@zyghom Yep. That would be true in my case as well. Making videos does force me into adding and deleting things at time as well.
Great Tutorial Chris thanks! Just installed using your guide,.... 42 missing entities and 2 missing services... ouch. Need to spend some time fixing.
I'm jealous. I have over 500.
Merry Christmas!!!
Same to you!
Great video as usual 👍
So it's been about 1 yr now Chris so how is the clean up going? Is Watchman helping? Rob
Thank you , how would you go about fixing these?
Yes I am also interested in fixing this, stuff. Great explanation how to detect everything but to make this video complete I would extended this with the actual explanation how to get rid of the actual problems 🙏🏼
The issue with fixing these is that there are many different problems that could have many different solutions based on each individual setup. There is a point in which the videos get too long and I have to find a stopping point. My fix for the issues that I found may not apply to others so the idea here is to provide a way to identify the problems. There are probably some common fixes that may fix some common issues and that would have been helpful. Thanks for the feedback.
Merry Christmas
Thanks! Same to you.
Great video! Thankyou! You probably worked it out by now, the ignore file function needs the whole path ... /config/file.yaml
Good point. Yes, I had to add the path. Thanks for the feedback.
One thing to watch, though. It appears to complain when some of your downloaded, but not configured, HACS intengrations have "missing" entities. I've seeen it listing ones that don't have a "friendly name" entry set up.
I am interested in trying Watchman - running HA Supervisor -2022.12.1 / HA 2023.1.6 - ( vm with Proxmox ) but Watchman does not show in " Integrations" as an addon. Any thoughts to solve?
Do you have HACS installed? Did you download it through HACS? Restart HA? Add the Integration within HA's Integration page afterward?
Step 1. Go into HACS (install that, if you don't have it). Integrations> +Explore & Download Repositories [Watchman]
Step 2. Restart HA
Step 3. Settings>Devices & Services (Integrations)> +Add Integration [Watchman]
Hope this helps!
Is stay tuned a HA term?
You'd think a tool like this would be onboarded in the default installation.
WTF added the watchman and 1 by 1 everything went south lost all devices and warnings galore how can i stop this runaway trainwreck
Restore from backup
Same here, wrecked the whole thing.
Really? I installed on two different HA devices. Other than having to wait when it started up, it was fine. I wonder if there is something you have installed that is causing an issue.
@@mostlychris Well, currently the raspi does not even start HA anymore and I have to find the time to add the device to keyboard and screen. Have no idea what is going on!
@@thomasbecker7381 Well that sucks. I need to see exactly what the resources are for watchman. I wonder if it is just too much for a lower powered device.