Match Friendly Name To Entity ID

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hello All - just started converting from smartthings to home assistant. When I change the friendly name of a device, it doesn’t change the entity ID to conform, so if I go into the YAML editor for automations its hard to know which device is which. I know I can go in and manually edit the entity ID of each sensor under the device, but wanted to know if there was a quick way to match it.

Note I’m only looking to do this once at the initial adoption, I know if I change entity IDs after I start setting up automations I’d mess it up so I’m only doing this once. For Zigbee devices, at adoption I have the option of putting in a custom name and that will propagate to each sensor. But Zwave adoption automatically puts the device into the system before I can change the name, and changing the friendly name afterwards don’t conform the entity ID.

Thanks,

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I believe if you turn on “Advanced mode” in your user profile when you rename a device it will ask if you want all the entity IDs changes as well. Note this won’t work if you’ve already changed a device name, they need to match the entitiy IDs.

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Thank you!