Potential issue with discovery about ring-mqtt HOT 2 CLOSED

There's nothing to do, and everything is working as expected. The script doesn't currently send any device info as part of the auto discovery, although it is something on my to-do list so I would consider it more of an enhancement request than an actual issue.

Basically, device info is a way to identify the physical device and associate it with it's available entities, so, for example, if a single physical device has two sensors, like the freeze/flood sensor, I could send device info and Home Assistant would recognize it as a single device with two sensors vs right now where it just recognizes it as two separate entities. From a functional perspective, it doesn't change a whole lot, although it might make the GUI categorize devices/entities a little more clearly without as much manual effort.

In your case each of our physical devices only have a single entity anyway, so it really would make no practical difference. I guess I could potentially expose the battery and tamper sensors as separate entities on the same device instead of including them as json attributes, but I think that would mostly just clutter up the interface.

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@tsightler - thanks for the explanation about devices! I'm still new to HA and really appreciate it 😄

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