Best practice for setting Insteon device names

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Hi, everyone! I have about 60 Insteon devices which are all automatically discovered. They end up with automatic names derived from the Insteon Hub, roughly in the form of “MicroDimmer AA.AA.AA” (AA.AA.AA is last 6 digits of MAC address). In the Insteon UI I’ve got all these devices named properly (e.g. “Entry Hall Table Lamps”), and I have a CSV file mapping the MAC addresses to those proper names.

I know I can manually set the name of each Device and Entity via the Configuration UI of Home Assistant. Ideally, I’d like to be able to edit the .json files directly so I don’t have to do all these updates via the GUI. But when searching within the Home Assistant files themselves, I found only a .json file under home_assistant_old/.storage/core.entity_registry. A few questions:

  1. What is the meaning of the _old suffix?
  2. Is this the right file to edit? If not, what is?
  3. If devices are auto-discovered, are portions of this (or the correct) file over-written?
  4. If I backup my files, should this (or the correct) file be included?

Thank you!

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I can’t believe this has not been answered. Doesn’t every insteon owner experience this? Did you ever find an answer for this?