fix!: Home Assistant: remove duplicate sensor/select for select/number/button entities

[Drafteed]

Breaking changes

This removes duplicate sensor for select and number entities in Home Assistant.
Additionally, it removes duplicate select for button entities.
It also removes removes duplicate sensor for text entities.

Based on #24198 (comment)

[Koenkk]

I initially agreed to this and even made the change in one of the PRs, but since this has never been deprecated properly (no option to disable it) I think we should not put this in 2.0.0

[mundschenk-at]

How would you even deprecate it? Add another legacy setting that defaults to on for some versions? To follow semantic versioning, you'd have to remove it only in a 3.0.0 version that's probably very far beyond the horizon.

Personally, I think the switch from 1.x to 2.x allows "binary breaks" even without a formal deprecation period (and wasn't this also mentioned in the big PR/discussion for several weeks at least? Edit: Apparently I misremembered).

[Drafteed]

I initially agreed to this and even made the change in one of the PRs, but since this has never been deprecated properly (no option to disable it) I think we should not put this in 2.0.0

These sensors have long been disabled by default in HA. I believe it's nearly safe to remove them given the current scope of breaking changes. I think this should be in 2.0.0.

[Koenkk]

These sensors have long been disabled by default in HA. I believe it's nearly safe to remove

That's very true indeed, then let's merge this into 2.0.0

Before merging:

• Could you also cleanup this one:

  zigbee2mqtt/lib/extension/homeassistant.ts

  Line 1152 in 71e163f

  // legacy: remove text sensor

• Can we easily generate a list of devices/sensors that are affected by this such that it can be added to Zigbee2MQTT 2.0.0 breaking changes #24198 ? This test case calls the discover method for all supported devices, I think by adding some console.log it should be possible to create a list?

[Drafteed]

• Can we easily generate a list of devices/sensors that are affected by this such that it can be added to Zigbee2MQTT 2.0.0 breaking changes #24198 ? This test case calls the discover method for all supported devices, I think by adding some console.log it should be possible to create a list?

Sure 😄 You can try to parse them as you like, I did it as JSON:

Removed sensor entities in favour of select entities
Removed select entities in favour of button entities
Removed sensor entities in favour of text entities

I think we can just make a note that duplicate entities have been removed from the HA.

[Koenkk]

Thanks! Added the following to #24198

• Removed duplicate sensor/select for select/number/button entities, the full list of removed entities per model can be found here.