I am new to HA, but long-time user of SmartThings and z-wave devices (I have about 30 devices around my house on z-wave).
I’m in the process of migrating them over to HA which is running on an IntelNUC with the HUSBZB-1 z-wave/zigbee stick.
As I add each switch (GE/Jasco on/off switches), they get entity IDs assigned as
switch.switch_n
where n increments with each switch I have.
I’ve renamed the nodes to assign friendly names to them, with the final result looking like so:
old_entity_id: switch.desk_lamp_switch_4_0
new_entity_id: switch.desk_lamp_switch
friendly_name: desk_lamp Switch
However, in node-red, I am unable to use the old_entity_id
or new_entity_id
to identify the switch. I have to use switch.switch_n
. is there any way I can have the entity be named something better?