Allow to re-configure Controls as Config

[fpedrei]

All configurable items are displayed as Controls in HomeAssistant. These controls are added to automatically generated dashboards by default and clutter the user interface. It would be great if it was possible to declare some of the Controls with entity_category value config. This would hide them from the dashboards and make the available as . For example, the WaterHardness isn't a control in my opinion, and I would like to configure this as a configuration, because it does not change more than once in the lifetime of the dishwasher.

Maybe this is already possible in discovery.json somehow, if I missed something, please let me know.

[Asmir1975]

Hi @fpedrei

WaterHardness is something you set once, and you can already set it from the Home Connect app on iOS/Android. In HA you've got two ways to get it out of the way, neither needs a code change.

1. Disable it in HA. Toggle the entity off in its settings.

2. Mark it as config in discovery.yaml. Add an override with entity_category: config:

MAGIC_OVERRIDES:
  Dishcare.Dishwasher.Setting.WaterHardness:
    entity_category: config

Use the exact feature name from your own devices.json. HA then files it under the device config section.

[Meatballs1]

Unfortunately there's not really any naming convention we can use to reliably differentiate config for entity_category. Many .Settings. values are settings, but some are controls e.g.

BSH.Common.Setting.PowerState
Refrigeration.Common.Setting.EcoMode
Refrigeration.Common.Setting.Freezer.SuperMode

The MAGIC_OVERRIDES allows this to be manually performed, the other option is to look at implementing a list like we have for disabled entities:

DISABLED_ENTITIES:
- Refrigeration.Common.Status.
- Dishcare.Dishwasher.Command.LearningDishwasher.Proposal.
- BSH.Common.Command.ApplyFactoryReset
- BSH.Common.Command.ApplyNetworkReset
- BSH.Common.Command.DeactivateWiFi

DISABLED_EXCEPTIONS:
- Refrigeration.Common.Status.Door.

[Meatballs1]

The following PR adds some support for this in discovery.yaml but it probably needs fleshing out with some decent examples or many controls will move to config:

#275