Have a 4-channel relay board where all the relays have the same name. Need to rename them?

I am just starting automations and got stuck. Using Sonoff 4CHPRO with factory firmware (relay board with 4 relays). Using “Sonoff-LAN”. By hand I can turn on/off the relays. When trying to automate I have a naming problem.


I hope this picture loaded OK. The 4CHPRO is named Garden Water, relay-1 is named Garden Water, relays 2-4 are also named Garden Water. When I do an automation there is one Garden Water. I tried renaming to Garden Water-1 but get a non-working device. I do not know the vocabulary to search for help.

You might want to take a look at Getting Started - Concepts and Terminology.

From what you have posted it looks like your device has create 4 switch entities, all with the same “friendly name”.

You will be able to find them in your Entities Table:

Open your Home Assistant instance and show your entities.

*Hint: Try searching switch. to bring up just entities in the switch domain.

Once you have found one of them, you can click it which will pop up a menu. At the top right there will be a gear button which will open that entity’s settings menu, where you can edit the “friendly name”.

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Thank you very much.
Settings/Devices/Entities
scroll down to the device(s), select, Settings
Top line “Name” change it.
Update

The changed names updated the Automations. Wow! Check to see if it got the right name.

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