Edits to Friendly_name arent saving, and is it possible to use a different character set?

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I have two questions with friendly_name by states

  1. I changed the friendly name of a state but whenever I refresh it goes back to the original. Any suggestions?

  2. Is there a way to enter a friendly name in a different character set such as Chinese or Cyrillic?

Thank you

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States don’t have friendly names, entities do.

Where / how are you changing the friendly name?

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I went to developer tools -> States -> Selected the state and edited the YAML code for friendly_name, when I do that, it adjusts it in the home page, but a few seconds later it resets.

Is there a way to edit the actual file that is being called to set a different name?

Thank you

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Ah I see.

That is not the area to make permanent changes, it is a test tool.

There are a number of places to do it permanently.

  • In the configuration yaml files. A restart is required after doing this. Not so for the ones below:
  • In the configuration / devices menu. Click on your device then the cog wheel if it has one.
  • In the configuration / entities menu. Click on your entity then the cog wheel if it has one.
  • In the configuration / integrations / integration type / device menu. Click on your device then the cog wheel if it has one.
  • In the main Lovelace interface pop-up card for the device. Click on the cog wheel if it has one.

There is even a way to do it by editing the device registry files directly. But it is not recommended.

So of all the many ways it is possible you picked the only one that wasn’t permanent :slight_smile: