I am currently in the process of cleaning up my Homeassistant installation in regards to device names and was wondering:
What do you use as a naming scheme for your Homematic devices (heater thermostats)? They get a rather procedural name in Homematic, do you rename them in Homematic or remap the names in HA? What is your Homematic workflow?
I prefer to keep the native entity IDs (the ones with the serial number). If you decide to use the named ones (using the resolvenames option), automations referencing the named entity will break if you rename the entity on the CCU. Which probably won’t happen often.
Another problem is when you add new devices. They will initially directly pop up in Home Assistant with the serial-based entity ID. That’s because HA detects the device before you can assign a proper name. Hence you’ll have to restart HA once you have renamed the device on the CCU to get the final entity ID.
Most people don’t seem to be bothered by these things though if I look at how many people choose to resolve the names.
It’s somewhere in the Security / Firewall settings. Can’t tell exactly, as I’m using a different system. Might be called HomeMatic Script as well. In any case, it’s at the place where you also control access to the XML-RPC API.
I meant: Where can you set that the serial numbers of the Homematic devices are not transferred to the Home Assistant, but the names of the devices?
Ich would like transfer the Homematic Names to Home Assistant and not the Serial Number. Is this possible?