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title: "Orphan Entity Cleaner"
description: "Orphan Entity Cleaner is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 801 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated September 1, 2026."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/franz646-orphan-cleaner"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/franz646-orphan-cleaner.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# Orphan Entity Cleaner

> Orphan Entity Cleaner is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 801 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated September 1, 2026.

Orphan Entity Cleaner finds and deletes orphan entities left in the Home Assistant registry. These are entities remaining after the integration that created them was removed or failed. It adds a sidebar web panel and services that scripts and automations can call, and it works locally after being added in the UI. Detection uses several methods, including dead registry entries, unavailable states, timestamps and heuristics, and the table can be filtered by method. A dry run mode simulates deletion without removing anything, and the delete service accepts it as a parameter. Save and delete writes a JSON backup of the selected entities first and aborts if the backup fails, while a persistent ignore list accepts platform names and patterns.

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[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=Franz646&repository=orphan-cleaner&category=integration)

On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=Franz646&repository=orphan-cleaner&category=integration)

## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
- **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

## Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

## From the README

> A custom integration that finds and deletes orphan entities - entities left in the registry after the integration that created them has been removed or failed - via a web panel in the sidebar and services callable from scripts and automations.

From the README of [Franz646/orphan-cleaner](https://github.com/Franz646/orphan-cleaner#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened.

## At a glance

- Kind: Marketplace integration
- Number: 801 installs sharing analytics; 72 GitHub stars
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months
- Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
- Latest version: v4.1.2, last updated September 1, 2026
- Domain: `orphan_cleaner`
- Source: <https://github.com/Franz646/orphan-cleaner>
- Issues: <https://github.com/Franz646/orphan-cleaner/issues>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/franz646-orphan-cleaner

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