Hello!
The last few days, I wrote some code to address a problem I have with Home Assistant.
Devices can be renamed outside of Home Assistant. When this happens, the integration does not propagate that change to Home Assistant, i.e., the entity_id is not changed. This makes sense to not break automations etc.
On the other hand, that causes names outside and inside of Home Assistant to diverge over time. See this feature request for concrete user stories.
Unfortunately, Home Assistant lacks a functionality to re-acquire the current names from the integrations.
Some forum ports that are related to the problem:
- Feature Request (please vote!): Reset / Re-acquire entity_id
- Question: Reset Hue entity ids?
- Question: Reset entity_id after name change
- Question: Rename entity_id for script any solutions?
- Question: Rename an Entity ID
I appreciate any feedback and comments!