Best practices for Entity NAME

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I have noticed that by default the Name field is left blank

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but in fact the default name is based on the Entity ID* suffix:

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A side effect of having a blank Name is that other integrations can “takeover” and replace the default name I had been using. This happened to me when I added a 3rd Party Camera (Reolink) to my Unifi Protect integration. I was able to restore the names on 20+ entity names by removing the Reolink Camera from my Unfi Protect configuration.

Is there a way to bulk update the Entity Name? I want the Entity Name filled in like so:

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Not as far as I know. you have to do it one by one.

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Aside from the trickery with device renaming being able to change the start of the name, no. Entities have different names so it would be hard to think of a way to do so without them all ending up with the same name.

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