Getting an odd message in the logs "Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs." - where to solve that?

[MikeSherman (Michael E Sherman)]

@Troon

The platform: homeassistant entry is reading data from HA, and is not your problem.

OK, I was (and still am) confused about entities. Virtually all of mine have the “does not have a unique ID” and can’t be edited or used for anything. Different IDs.

@Troon

It is the name or id of each ESPHome sensor or switch that must be unique. Note that the “This entity does not have a unique ID” is not the same error as the subject of this thread. What is the exact error you’re seeing?

Calling the ‘id’ ‘name’ in the yaml was my confusion.

@Troon

Please see rule 11 when posting code.

I didn’t know about the ‘…’ for quoting text instead of the blockquote.

Thanks again,
-Mike