As I have added more and more devices and repurposed items things in my list of devices is becoming confusing. I thought about using a naming scheme but that often has repercussions as the names get longer making them harder to use in automations etc.
I looked for a way to attach meta data i.e. How can I define something as a power plug then just pick that. Or maybe easily get to things currently defined as operating Christmas lights etc. If I could add meta data that says this I could easily find it or combinations of it. This does not seem to be there, or I am not understanding how to do it.
How do other people manage? How do you name new devices so you easily know what they are and where they are etc.?
But if you want to add “metadata” you can customize each entity (not device tho as far as I know) by customizing each entity to add the data as an attribute.
thanks finity, i will do that. Don’t want to get too customised as that can end up badly so will just go for a naming convention and work from there.
The more you customise systems the more likely they are to fall foul of some future change to the software. I’ve been caught many times in my day job by departments that have made customisations built on capabilities of the software that are little used that then become a liability when the software updates. Over time I’ve learned to avoid heading down that route