JohNan/homeassistant-wellbeing

Entity naming improvement

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lazyoldbear commented

Right now, entities are named as {DEFAULT_NAME}_{self.entity_attr} which yields numbered outcome if several appliances are present:

  • sensor.wellbeing_temp
  • sensor.wellbeing_temp_2

This is extremely inconvenient: sensors are just useless in HA.
Of course, it is possible to manually rename them all, but that is hardly a sustainable approach.
The following would be a great (and not very difficult) improvement:

  1. Utilise appliance name in entities names.
  2. Allow configurable prefix for integration.
JohNan commented

@lazyoldbear I changed the name generation in the latest update. Have you tried it out? Let me know how it goes and if all is well we can close this issue.

lazyoldbear commented

Entity names are unchanged. Should I remove everything first?

JohNan commented

Unfortunately yes. I was not able to find a good migration path.

lazyoldbear commented
  • Removal from UI not possible (2022.4.3)
  • Removed manually from .storage/core.entity_registry
  • Restarted HA from the menu
  • All good
lazyoldbear commented

Works.
Much, much better now.
The only thing to wish is to use better auth mechanism, but I suppose that is not up to you.

Thanks a lot!

lazyoldbear commented

Fixed at least in 1.0.1 (possibly earlier).