Possibility to not creating area

[antoweb]

Please add the option to not automatic create an area when starting HA

After removed area loke kitchen or bathroom (automatic created from integration), restarting HA cause a re-creation

[ofalvai]

I think this is a bug in Home Assistant Core and not in this integration.

This integration just adds a suggested_area to the device info object: https://github.com/ofalvai/home-assistant-candy/blob/main/custom_components/candy/sensor.py#L59

The device registry documentation doesn't mention anything about deleting areas, just the fact that I can add a suggested area: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/device_registry_index/#device-properties

I recommend opening an issue in the HA core repository.

[antoweb]

Are you sure? Others integrations like local tuya or iphonedetect not create area in automatic

[ofalvai]

Maybe these integrations don't provide a suggested area. I wouldn't remove the suggested area field just because of this bug, I think it's a useful feature.

[antoweb]

Issue opened but HA says "is not a bug but by design" :-)

home-assistant/core#58311 (comment)

[antoweb]

For your info developers of HA says that the beahvior is normal:
"Yes, unless the device is manually set to the correct area, it will use the suggested area for the integration. If such a suggested area doesn't exists, it will be created."

[antoweb]

Any news?

[ofalvai]

If this behavior is by design, then I can't do anything unfortunately.

[antoweb]

Yes you can remove from code the suggested area for example?

[ofalvai]

That would remove a useful feature for others, so I don't want to do that. I recommend working around the behavior, eg. creating a placeholder area and assigning the Candy appliance to that, this way you can avoid the suggested area popping up.

[antoweb]

Ok but the placeholer area xcannot be removed from lovelace dashboard.
Ok no problem, can you tell me please wich part of code i can comment/remove from python to avoid this behavior, so i can edot muself the code files.
Thanks

[ofalvai]

Sure, you can delete this line: https://github.com/ofalvai/home-assistant-candy/blob/main/custom_components/candy/sensor.py#L59