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How do you organize your HA devices (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by barbarosa@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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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 ?
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[โ€“] barbarosa@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So if a device has multiple entities, you rename each one ? i.e. a hygrometer that measures humidity and temperature, you name each one separately ?

[โ€“] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 9 months ago

No, if a device has multiple entities I leave the names as they are. HA will append them to the name of the device