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hasensors: Document HA `unique ID` workaround
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0.03: Add HRM sensor
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Add step count sensor
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Add pressure and temperature sensors
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Document Home Assistant `unique ID` workaround
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* `<sensor id>_steps`: Step Count
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* `<sensor id>_pressure`: Pressure
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* `<sensor id>_temperature`: Temperature
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## Home Assistant `unique ID` workaround
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If you try to customize the created entities, Home Assistant will complain that
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> This entity ('sensor.…') does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings
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> cannot be managed from the UI.
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The problem is that these sensors are created "dynamically", and there is no way
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to supply a `unique ID`.
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There is a workaround though:
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1. Make note of the sensor name you want to customize (e.g. `banglejs_battery_state`).
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2. Disconnect your Bangle.js from your phone, so it doesn't send updates.
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3. Restart Home Assistant, the sensor is now gone.
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4. <a href="https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start?domain=template" target="_blank">Create a template sensor</a>: choose "Template a sensor".
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- Use the name from step 1 (without `sensor.` prefix).
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- Set the state template to `unknown`.
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5. Reconnect your Bangle.js: it will now update the new template sensor, which
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*does* have a `unique ID`.
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**Warning:** Do not customize the `Entity ID`: the app sends values by sensor
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ID, so you end up with both a non-updating template sensor and "dynamic" sensor
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without `unique ID`.
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