Friendly Name not showing up in the .storage directory

I have been trying to find where the friendly names are stored, I have not been able to find that, I have a light named kitchen_island but I cant find it anywhere in the home assistant directory. It has been changed on the front end but cannot find it on the backend.

Where is that stored? Do I always have to used the web interface to find if it is switch.kitchen_island or light.kitchen_island?

I have looked in core.entity_registry core.config_entries core.device_registry and none of those have the string kitchen_island some of my automations that work have that name but it isn’t stored anywhere

TL;DR Where are friendly names stored? It looks like not in the .storage folder, but it is set in the web ui, but want to find the file where it is set

Are they not in the customize.yaml file in your main config folder?

If the light was auto discovered its information will be recorded in the core.device_registry and core.entity_registry files. You should not be messing with this unless you know what you are doing.

If it was auto discovered you can click on the item in the frontend and edit the entity id and friendly name from the pop up.

The entities and attributes are also available to view in the developer tools “States” menu (the <> button).

If it was not auto discovered then the parameters are in your config yaml file(s). Either under customize: (as @chairstacker said) or under the light: section.

No the names are not in the customize.yaml, they were set in the web interface but I cannot find where home assistant stores the information for what the friendly names were set to

The lights were auto discovered and i found that they actually were in the core.device_registry just I was looking at an old file not the one after I had edited things.

Are zwave devices always considered “auto-discovered”?

Sorry about the question that was my fault for looking at the wrong file!

Yes their configuration is stored in the .storage directory.