[Feature] Allow to select entities presented to HA in settings about homeassistant-mikrotik_router

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[tomaae]

you can disable tracking of network devices in integration options. which should be only dynamic generated entries.
if you want to hide certain ports, etc... HA have an option to disable entities.

[nocturneop15]

ok, but you can only enable or disable this. Not filter out what to enable (and all is enabled by default) - as result, I have 59 devices and 230 entities just after enabling integration.

Having options what to publish would be great for keeping HA as clean as possible.

[tomaae]

Can you elaborate on what you have in mind in detail and example?

[nocturneop15]

Separate switches for exporting entities:

• physical interfaces including wifi and cellular (switch, rx, tx)
• PPP interfaces (rx, tx, switch)
• queues (switch)
• ip/routes (switch)
• mangle objects (switch)
• filter rules (switch)
• client devices (rx, tx)

also, I should leave general system values (cpu, ram etc.) enabled by default,

That would give us great granular control what to include in HA - this might be useful for larger networks (my home network contains 9 mikrotik routers at all, that's why I was scared by exporting 230 entities from just one, first connected mkt)

[tomaae]

hmm, I will need to have a look if it is even possible, since many objects are interconnected. most should be tho, but such change wont be fast since that would involve translation files.
I will have a look on what can be done here.

[nocturneop15]

Cool, hope this will be doable!

If possible, could also scripts be presented with toggle button? That would allow very simple, but absolutely full controll over mkt in HA...(and allows automations that are otherwise impossible, e.g. switching routing chain across multiple devices. In my case - I have more WANs available ,but some of them are behind another subnets and devices)

[tomaae]

Scripts are presented using switch and service already, you can pick how you want to control them.

[nocturneop15]

oups, sorry - i did not nottice, that is great! I must check this further. Thanks for your work!

[adventurous-geek]

This feature is important. I took was surprised that after adding just one of 5 mikrotik routers, I had 300+ entities. I would very much like to limit this to specific interfaces/devices only. Sure, I can disable the unwanted ones, but with a list that long, that is not a nice job.

[tomaae]

it wont be possible to limit to specific interfaces/devices, you have to do that in HA like with any other integration.
I can only filter by functionality groups.

[tomaae]

This is my general idea at the moment. I have implemented multi page configuration, this will be its 2nd page.
For now, I'm leaving only port switch and system sensors on by default, rest will have to be turned on in options.

I think this is what you had in mind.

[nocturneop15]

Exactly! This is awesome option, thumbs up!

[tomaae]

All done, it will be available in next release.

[adventurous-geek]

This is a great way of reducing the number of entities listed. Additionally, you might consider including a REGEX filter on the entity names, so that only those meeting the filter will be included.