Renaming devices
Until a proper migration or renaming tool is developed we will need to rename the freshly discovered devices and entities into something more useful. Devices and entities get their names from OpenZwave and those are the names provided by the manufacturer and they don’t know whether your device is in the kitchen or living room.
Steps I took to migrate
- Before migration, copy paste the list of entities to Excel. You can do this from the States menu under developer tools. Filter Attributes with “node_id:”. This will give you all your old Zwave entities.
- After migration, go to a new OZW device (screenshot: click on 2A), inside the entity click the top right button (2B) and find the node id in the bottom right corner (2C).
- Back to the device page. Click the wheel in top right corner (3A) and rename the device (3B). It will ask you to rename all entities as well.
