I have a concoction of devices from all kind of manufacturers with cryptic codes in their names. Each device exposes multitude of sensors which makes the dashboard look like a mess.

  1. Is there a best practice for renaming devices ? Do you name them by their location ? By their utility ? manufacturer ?
  2. How do you identify the devices later in case there’s a problem and one needs to be replaced / battery need to be replaced ?
  • barbarosa@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    How do you et HASS to name them ? i,e. what names does it chose ? So basically you leave the location out of the name as that is shown in the area anyway ? Thing is, that sometimes you need to choose a device from a dropdown, and in these dropdowns they don’t show the area, so having the location sometime gives more information that is missing

    • cooljimy84@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      So I don’t think HASS really names them, I think they have a default/preset name on themselves, like “TZ3000_2”