How to change the entity_id of a wemo switch?

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Hello!

I have a wemo mini switch that used to have the coffee machine plugged in, and it was installed before the Entity Registry was introduced. The entity_id that was then assigned was ‘switch.coffee_machine’.

I decided to move this switch somewhere else in the house, and from à maintenability perspective, it does notre make sens to keep that entity_id.

I changed the name of the switch in the wemo app… This would normally have changed the entity_id in Homme Assistant prior the introduction of the Entity Registry… How can I now change it ?!

Thanks!

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Any luck with this? I tried changing the name of my two WEMOs in the WEMO app, but HA didn’t pickup the change so I haven’t figured out how to change these either.

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This happens because of the new entity registry introduced a while back. The way I resolved it was to find the WeMo entities in entity_registry.yaml and remove them. Restarted HASS, and the devices re-detected as the new names. The entry looks like:

switch.<original-wemo-name>:
  name:
  platform: wemo
  unique_id: <14-digit-alphanumeric-id>

I assume you could also probably just change the original-wemo-name and restart HASS…but I haven’t tested that. Keep in mind you’ll also need to update your groups.yaml to use the new names if you have any customizations including these switches.

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@RandyF Thanks for this - deleting the entries from entity_registry.yaml and then rebooting worked for me, hass.io detected the new names of the wemo switches on reboot.

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Yes you can just rename them in the entity registry.

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I had success with erasing the wemo entry in entity_Id and then rebooting with the “switch” turned “on”. Mine also required the static ip entry.