enable only small entities subset by default

[Mariusthvdb]

an observation: for eg Oosterschelde 4, many sensors are enabled by default, forcing the user to disable those manually. As is default MO in HA lately, creation of entities is mostly disabled, and then allowing then user to pick and enable

In my use-case, I need only Waterhoogte, windrichting and windsnelheid on the stations....

Maybe think of some sane set to enable by default, and leave the others disabled?
Or, have a config option in the flow to preselect those wanted entities?

many entities enabled by default

or worse even:

[physje]

That's a matter of taste.

Currently, the component checks whether the sensor is a measurement or an expected/astronomical value. The latter two are disabled by default.
The component then checks whether the sensor has recent data (data from the last 14 days). If not, it is disabled.

All enabled sensors are therefore valid; all others probably aren't.

I don't know if disabling sensors in the configuration flow is much less work than disabling them later.
I'll add it to my improvement list, but it's not a high priority for me.

[Mariusthvdb]

yes any predefined selection would be arbitrary, I can see that.
maybe set a preference globally, and not per config_flow is possible?

anyways, thanks for considering