Force entity ids of PlexMediaPlayers?

Configuration
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I’ve got 2 Pi’s running PlexMediaPlayer, one in the lounge and one in the kids’ playroom. They get given media_player.plexmediaplayer and media_player.plexmediaplayer_2 ids, and I have automations based off one of those entity ids.

However when I restart HASS it seems to swap them over at random, which breaks the automations. Is it possible to force them to get specific ids?

Cheers!

Justin

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In case anyone else needs to solve this, the issue actually relates to the hostnames of the plex clients themselves.

All you need to do is change this bit of /storage/.local/share/plexmediaplayer/plexmediaplayer.conf

“openelec”: {
“systemname”: “plexmp-ryanb”
},

You can change that to something like PlexLivingRoom or whatever and then automate based off that unique name,