Entities still appear in unused entities

[Cirrus94]

When I create an auto-entities card, the entities which are shown in the card still appear in the unused entities area. Is there a solution? Thanks.

[daringer]

Funny issue, as I have the very same issue with flex-table-card, even worse, as flex-table does not even ensure that .entities is an array, the unused entities view crashed more or less, but luckily these changes do fix this bug. (see here for more details)

Currently my understanding is that all cards, which are somehow dynamically populating their .entities will suffer from this drawback! Lovelace is searching unused entities by checking all cards for their .entites, but the cards are not evaluated, thus e.g., auto-entities & flex-table-card have an empty .entities array and lovelace cannot remove these entities from the unused entities view.

@thomasloven can you confirm this? or did I miss-understand this mechanism?

[thomasloven]

That's correct. The "unused entities" list does not actually evaluate the lovelace interface, but just scans the configuration. As such, dynamically populated entities are missed - and also do not pop in and out of the unused list on state changes.