HomeKit Bridge showing hidden entities in entity selection drop down

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The problem

After clicking on configure, when selecting entities to include, the list contains devices which are hidden in home assistant, such as changing a switch type from switch to Light, hides the switch and creates a light helper, both entities then show in the list, whereas only the light should be shown, not the switch which is hidden.

This issue, along with the design of the UI is making it extremely difficult to configure and find devices. I have hundreds of entities in the list, there is no search, no list of selected entities, no alphanumerical order (im sure there is but the list isnt in order, I have devices with similar names that are well apart in the list) etc.

It would also make it much easier and make this less of an issue if the UI was different, such as one idea is two lists, one list of entities not selected, and one of entities that are selected, or even just a second list of only selected devices so I can check over and see if I have added everything, currently I have to scroll a list of hundreds to try and check, but when im trying to check for 50 devices and there is no order, its hard / near impossible to see if I have missed something.

Ideally a different method for adding devices would be good, such as on the device itself, rather than in the current entities list. this would make it easy when adding a new device to tick something on the device itself to add it to HomeKit.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.8.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

HomeKit Bridge

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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