Gauge naming in Graphs by device instead of room not practical

Configuration Frontend
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so I’ve baught a bunch of these bluetooth Temperature & humidity measures: https://www.amazon.de/ThermoPro-Raumthermometer-Luftfeuchtigkeitsmesser-Smiley-Indikator-Datengrafik/dp/B09P3K5778?pd_rd_w=0vmk8&content-id=amzn1.sym.7391a8ce-c894-43fa-ad30-4f5ea9b9f5b8&pf_rd_p=7391a8ce-c894-43fa-ad30-4f5ea9b9f5b8&pf_rd_r=H8FH63NERYKMQYS3GW8K&pd_rd_wg=GzUSI&pd_rd_r=5da02f4e-27b7-4624-a6a7-9befe6ac97d3&ref_=pd_bap_d_csi_prsubs_0_nped_t&th=1
and configured + distributed them across my rooms.
Now I’ve added all of them to a graph in “Verlauf”/history, and instead of the respective room names, the device IDs are shown in the graph:

  • TP357 (7E29) Temperature
  • TP357 (9D34) Temperature
  • TP357 (A9B6) Temperature
  • TP357 (E690) Temperature

which is not as nice to interpret. Having “Living Room”, “Kitchen” etc. would be way more practical.

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You can rename your sensors or just override the name in the graph.

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You could also use the card-templater card. It allows inserting templates into any card, which allows displaying the area instead of the entity name.

E.g.:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: grid
  title: Luftfeuchtigkeit
  columns: 3
  square: false
card_param: cards
filter:
  include:
    - or:
        - entity_id: sensor.bad_luftfeuchtigkeit
        - entity_id: sensor.kuche_humidity
        - entity_id: sensor.eve_room_df05_humidity
        - entity_id: sensor.schlafzimmer_esp32_humidity
        - entity_id: sensor.turmzimmer_epaper_esp32_humidity
        - entity_id: sensor.humidity
      options:
        type: custom:card-templater
        card:
          type: gauge
          entity: this.entity_id
          min: 0
          max: 100
          needle: true
          name_template: '{{ area_name("this.entity_id") }}'
          segments:
            - from: 0
              color: red
            - from: 20
              color: orange
            - from: 40
              color: green
            - from: 60
              color: orange
            - from: 80
              color: red

This uses GitHub - thomasloven/lovelace-auto-entities: 🔹Automatically populate the entities-list of lovelace cards to generate a list of cards and GitHub - gadgetchnnel/lovelace-card-templater: Custom Lovelace card which allows Jinja2 templates to be applied to other cards to show area name.

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