MQTT entity naming change

[rama3124 (Rama)]

Hi I just upgraded to 2024.2.0 and received two errors after upgrade:

Discovered entities with a name that starts with the device name
Discovered MQTT entities with a name that is equal to the device name

Are these safe to ignore? If not. How can I fix them? Thanks

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

See if this thread helps:

PSA: MQTT Name changes in 2023.8

Everyone, there will be MQTT name changes in the next release of the software. There is nothing to worry about, your names are safe. However the change caused addons like Z2M (and other MQTT integrations) to update their discovery information. As it stands, Z2M will not be able to release a version with this fix until September 2023. During that time a warning will be in your logs indicating that there is an issue. You can safely ignore this warning. As of this writing, there may also be a…

[rama3124 (Rama)]

Amazing, thanks. I’ll ignore the warning then

[sender]

Same warning here.

what is meant with “ignore”? Ignore as human or press IGNORE button and leave warning until Z2M updates?

[Spiro]

First one ignore then the other ignore. For now.

[Jerry80]

Hi,

Same problem, I just ignore it, everything looks good but entities from Z2M don’t work. I’ve got tv led strip and couple sensors. TV led strip button doesn’t work and sensors don’t show any information.
Do you know how to fix it?

Thank you

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

@petro perhaps close this thread to force people to the linked thread. I already see duplicate comments and questions.