Under Settings
> Entities
, add the ability to display all entities belonging to a device when searching with an entity name, even if individual entities have a completely different name and do not match the search criteria.
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Description:
Currently, when we search for an entity name under ENTITIES, for ex. "PIR Hauseingang", all entities that contain this search text are displayed.
However, entities from the same device that have a different name and do not contain the entered search text are not displayed!
For example, if individual entities were not renamed for some reason.
Proposed Feature:
It would be helpful if we had the ability to display the entities of a device even if the name of those entities does not match the search text.
Use Case:
This would make entities that are not yet correctly named noticeable, so we could identify and edit them more easily.
Implementation Suggestion:
Add a function/filter that, in addition to the entities found for a search text, lists also all "associated" entities to this device, even if the entity name does not match the search text.
A few images for further explanation:

Result by searching "PIR Hauseingang":
Only 14 entities, containing "PIR Hauseingang", are listet.
But this device has 2 additional entities, not listet by this search, because thei are still named:


sensor.lumi_lumi_motion_ac02_lqi
sensor.lumi_lumi_motion_ac02_rssi
It would be nice and helpful if we could use the search in such a way that we could see the 16 entities for this device on this entity page.
The following device detail page shows all relevant entities, but is not the right place to manage, organize and rename entities ;)
Further thoughts on the search function:
In general, I find the search function in Home Assistant quite rigid and inflexible, because when searching with several words, the search always looks for the entire sentence and there is no option to search with search operators...
Perhaps an extension/adjustment in the search function in this regard would also be helpful and useful.
Thanks :)
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