My wife and I have the exact same phone. I have HA app on both phones. That apparently caused both phones to show up under “Mobile App”. And they both show the same Model name “modelno”, for instance. I tried selecting one and was able to change the name to, for instance, “My Phone”. But I don’t see a place to change the model name.
So now when I try to create an automation that sends a notification to a phone, there is only one choice for Service to call. It is “Notifications: Send a notification via mobile_app_sm_modelno”.
How can I get these 2 phone entities separated and be able to send a message to one or the other?
Also, where is this model name information saved? Is it someplace I could edit?
And lastly, if HA had used the property of the phone that shows as “Model name” instead of the “Model number”, presumably there would not have been a problem.
Great! Thanks UniPer. Somehow I missed the “Companion App” setting. I scrolled up and down that list several times before posting and didn’t recognize it’s significance.
I guess I still wish that HA had picked up the name and not the MODEL from the phone when I installed it. MODEL is not going to be unique and anyone with more than one phone of the same type is going to have to figure this out. Hopefully, they will find this thread.
I would, but I still have to figure out how to fix ONE device, 2477D, that doesn’t respond to HA. I have 2 switches in the same outlet box. One works, one doesn’t. And I’m pretty sure it used to. It operates manually, and I didn’t normally use it any other way. But when I was trying to identify which device was which after initial install, I would have thought I tried it then. But maybe not.
Now if I try to turn it on, it just turns itself off again. (as far as I know, the light never lights just the HA UI changes).
This isn’t critical to me, but I always like working out these problems because that is when you learn stuff.
And I want to try to get rid of the scenes in the Insteon hub and just use HA, but so far I’m not sure how to identify what is a scene and what is not in the Insteon Panel.
For that I would advise you to create a new topic. I’ve got no experience with switches and Insteon so, to be sure this question will be noticed, repost it in a new topic.