I am just starting and although I thought I used short names, I was surprised to find that inside Home Assistant, my ESP32 devices’ entity names are a concatenation of [friendly-name]+[disp-name]+[parameter-name]. I expected only [disp-name]+[parameter-name] so there’s some unintentional redundancy. Some are only a few characters too long, but it’s enough to obscure the units while building automations, so makes selection hard.
I am concerned that changing these device friendly names when I update my esp32 in calibration I will have to change all the definitions in my dashboards, my grafana graphs, and automations, essentially doubling the number of parameters I am looking at.
Or will the dashboards and automations remain intact as long as I do the update with the esphome addon?
Luckily I only have a short history and this should not be a terrible thing to start ignoring the first week of data. Is it possible that changing only the friendly or the parameter won’t break these links (they are put together using the concatenated entity name).