Giving unique names to uptime_sensor, esphome_version etc

ESPHome
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Hi,

I currently have two ESP32s running ESPHome and I’d like to send notifications on things like uptime, version etc. However I have discovered the names aren’t unique as such, just incremented by one. This makes it difficult to programmatically match “sensor.esphome_version_2” to a specific device, for example.

Is it possible to change the names in the ESPHome YAML itself? I’ve tried id and name parameters, and added / removed the ESPHome integration, but they reappeared with the same generic names.

Thanks

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You have to give unique names at the component level. There is no hierarchy system

You can use substitution in case your nodes are similar. Check docs on usage.

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Yes, they are completely nameable. Have you tried (this works for me):

sensor:
  - platform: uptime
    name: "Unique Uptime"

text_sensor:
  - platform: version
    name: "Unique espHome version"

You can name them anything you want.

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I did try this initially and it didn’t work, but I removed everything and started from scratch, and it worked as expected.

Thanks!