If the switch was auto-discovered:
Clicking on the switch name in the front end to get the more information dialogue box up may reveal a cog icon at the top of the box you can use to change the settings. If no cog icon is available, change the name of the device in the device. Then restart HA to force a discovery update.
If you manually added the device. Change the switch name in it’s Home Assistant configuration.
Yes, but I was unable to use the friendly name as an entity_id
I will be adding 2 other Sonoff devices this week, and it would be nice to be able to set their entity_id
I wounder how they will show…
Once MQTT discovery sees a device, the entity_id given will stick. In order to change it, normally, you can use the cog in the upper right hand corner of the more info panel. But, this has been broken since 0.90. So, instead, you have to go to Configure->Entity Registry, search for the entity id there, click, and change.
No worries. Home Assistant is huge. And in a constant state of flux. At any given time, not everything works correctly. So it’s a moving target to navigate the current list of bugs and figure out how to do something.
Thankfully, the features MOST people use are working MOST of the time. This is just one of those times when it isn’t.
I’m still on 0.91.4 because 0.92.x isn’t stable enough yet for me. I was hoping this bug would be fixed by 0.92.1, but, I guess it isn’t. The fix for this was supposedly merged on 4/10. So either the fix didn’t fix it, or that particular merge hasn’t made it into a release yet.
does it use doker?
if so, for my understanding, doker is a virtual environment. Is hassio running as a virtual machine?
in the installation manuals the say doker installation, do I follow those, or the manual?
I tried to manually install some software:
How do I install anything that is not on the add-on store?
How do I get a script to run at startup?
How do I get commands run at the start of any session?
like:
alias ll=‘ls -lah --color=auto’
alias dir=‘ls -lash --color=auto’