Mobile App Integration - Renaming Entity IDs

Mobile Apps
1

I recently purchased a new Android phone (Pixel 10) for my wife and now we both have the same device model. To avoid confusion, I have renamed my device in the Companion app to "Pixel Chris".

Now I want to recreate all the entity IDs, via the Mobile App integration. When I do so, the entity IDs will be changed to e.g. "sensor.pixel_chris_pixel_10_accent_color"

I do not want the "_pixel_10" appended to all entity ID's, how do I prevent this?

2

I'm only guessing but if you are using the HA Android app, maybe using the web interface will avoid this.

3

Thanks for the guess. I am using the web interface to rename the entities.

4

I don't know of any way to override the ID composition when using "Recreate entity IDs"... but, you could just set up a quick script that uses Spook's Update Entity ID action in a Repeat For each with a templated for_each providing the entities:

sequence:
  - repeat:
      for_each: |
        {{ integration_entities('mobile_app') | select('search','pixel_chris_pixel_10') | list}} 
      sequence:
        - action: homeassistant.update_entity_id  #This is a custom action that requires installing the Spook custom integration
          target: {}
          data:
            entity_id: "{{ repeat.item }}"
            new_entity_id: "{{ repeat.item | replace('_pixel_10', '' ) }}"
5

I'm not sure how it you're using a web browser it can know the name of the device you're using, or is that name stored somewhere in HA? What if you are using a web browser from your PC for example?

There's much I don't understand about HA being so new, but I think there's more to this than that!

6

This worked great, but does not work on disabled entities. Do you know how to make it run on disabled entities?

7

It would require a little manual work to apply a Label to all the entities:

  • Go to the Entities dashboard
  • Apply filters so the desired entities are in the list. Add a check to "Disabled" in the Status filters. You can also add a check to "Mobile App" in the Integration filters if you want to be safe.
  • Type your search string ("pixel_chris_pixel_10") into the bar
  • Click the "Enter selection mode" button to the left of the search bar and choose "Select All"
  • On the top right click "Add Label", then create a unique label and apply it to all the entities.

Once they are labelled, you can use a variation on the same script to update the entity IDs... and, while you're at it, you might as well remove the label from the entities:

sequence:
  - variables:
      my_label: YOUR_UNIQUE_LABEL
  - repeat:
      for_each: |
        {{ label_entities(my_label) }} 
      sequence:
        - action: homeassistant.remove_label_from_entity #This is a custom action that requires installing the Spook custom integration
           data:
             label_id: "{{ my_label }}"
           entity_id: "{{ repeat.item }}"
        - delay:
            milliseconds: 100
        - action: homeassistant.update_entity_id  #This is a custom action that requires installing the Spook custom integration
          target: {}
          data:
            entity_id: "{{ repeat.item }}"
            new_entity_id: "{{ repeat.item | replace('_pixel_10', '' ) }}"
  - alias: Enable this action if you want to delete the label completely after the loop finishes
    enabled: false
    action: homeassistant.delete_label
    data:
      label_id: "{{ my_label }}"
8

Thanks again, you're awesome!