Trevor Feeney

Adding multiple items because you told me to :) On a sitemap it's way more useful to have a switch alongside a slider for dimmers, as it's not that useable...

Perhaps I just mis-understood what you said (I may have thought you meant create two Items when you meant to entries in the Sitemap for the same item). Also, that...

For example, I go to my Kitchen Dimmer Thing, try and add an item with name of Switch_Kitchen. It throws the error. I click cancel. Now if I go down...

I can't say for certain, but that does sound possible knowing what I was doing at the time.

> Passive. But I also have HomeKit setup since the HAP spec sends notifications passively. The yalexs-ble library knows how to watch for them. See https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/yalexs_ble/#push-updates Do you have them...

@bdraco FYI, I have a [draft PR](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6752) up to use the ESP-IDF scanner whitelisting...seems to be super snappy so far on my setup. I think it'll be a useful feature...