Handling states
It is the responsibility of the component to maintain the states of the devices in your domain. Each device should be a single state and, if possible, a group should be provided that tracks the combined state of the devices.
A state can have several attributes that will help the frontend in displaying your state:
friendly_name
: this name will be used as the name of the deviceentity_picture
: this picture will be shown instead of the domain iconunit_of_measurement
: this will be appended to the state in the interfacehidden
: This is a suggestion to the frontend on if the state should be hidden
These attributes are defined in homeassistant.helpers.entity.