In z2m - "Update Home Assistant entity ID" stoped working😟

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Hi all,

I have a setup with 2 z2m add-on installs

  • a sonooff, usbstick v3
  • a SMLIGHT SLZB-06, rj45 connected

I installed the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 because i wanted to move to a rj45 connected setup because my sonoff is getting quite unstabel.

the SMLIGHT is SUPER stable (11 months) - it never drops connections and is just easy to work with.

Problem:
I have slowly been migrating my 60+ entities from sonoff to SML a few at a time - when I had the time - THIS HAS BEEN WORKING WELL.

Now suttenly when i remove an entity from sonoff (force remove + block rejoin) - connects it to SML, renames it to the original name in z2m incl the “Update Home Assistant entity ID” tickmark - the entity is no longer updated in HA. It does get the new z2m name as friendly name, but the entity (light.0x680…) does not change (see image below.

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This did not use to be the case - maybe there is some update to home assistant or z2m where I have missed this in the release notes (i looked).

If anybody has a workaround i would higly appriciate it.

I use the ‘old’ entity name in a lot of places - buttons, templates, automations etc.

regards

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Rename to the friendly name with a _ added, then rename again to the driendly name. Both times with “Update Home Assistant entity ID” tickmark

I have it sometimes too, and this helps.

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THanks for reaching out - I already did this - but now im gonna do it again :smirk:

hold on

Edit:

just tried again - looks like HA Updates the friendly name - even without the tickmark. tested a few times back and forth with the tickmark incl restarts. The entity name stayes the same :unamused: - only the friendly name changes

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I think this was introduced in 2025.7.0.

Supposedly fixed (I think in 7.2): Fix entity_id should be based on object_id the first time an entity is added by jbouwh · Pull Request #148484 · home-assistant/core.

If you’re on 7.0 - 7.2, upgrade and test.

I’m not on 7.x yet, so no idea if the fix works.

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ur the best - went from 7.1–> 7.3 and problem solved😏.

i normally go though these release notes, but i could not see anything this time.

thanks for the assistance.

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