I just configured Google Home Mini and I see I have a tonne of entities which has almost the same name. This is mostly due to my Philips Hue I think which also has scenes on the device itself. Anyone have a good strategy for naming and make sure not to have duplicate scenes and so on?
Example:
If I have a group called “Living Room” and inside that I have a light called Living Room Light, should I change the name of the light to only “Light” because the group already defines where it’s located?
As @petro says its mostly personal preference, but it’s also specific to how you run the lights in your house. Like my living room has two lights, but we treat them as one, so I called them LR left and LR right, then grouped the two as ‘livingroom’ so that if you say ‘livingroom lights’ to Alexa she can only see one light, but really it’s both.
Similar with the bedroom, MB Ceiling and MB lamp etc, but Alexa just hears ‘bedroom’ for the lot, and the interface has an input_select for the scenes.
I had to do all sorts of things the other way around too, because in the Hue app you can only make a motion sensor switch on a ‘room’, which wasn’t what I wanted, so I have some random rooms set up for that purpose on the Hue app, but then in HA (and thus Alexa) I refer to the individual lights instead.