Names on Cameras change cameras by themselves

Configuration
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I have 4 security cameras, local radar and weather on my home view.

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I have names on them but for some reason lovelace/HA moves the names on the cameras.

In other words the back door camera might be renamed the shed camera and so on. Firstly I thought I must have made a mistake but now I have corrected it many times.
I use the visual editor to change/correct the names when I see them in error.

I originally defined the cameras in the configuration.yaml but later moved to Lovelace.
In the configuration.yaml the cameras had IP addresses and I used the HIKVision integration to set the HIKVision ones up

  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: "http://UN:[email protected]/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture"
    stream_source: "rtsp://UN:[email protected]:554/streaming/channels/102"
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: "http://UN:[email protected]/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture"
    stream_source: "rtsp://UN:[email protected]:554/streaming/channels/102"
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: "http://UN:[email protected]/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture"
    stream_source: "rtsp://UN:[email protected]:554/streaming/channels/102"
# foscam
  - platform: foscam
    ip: 192.168.0.248
    username: myusername
    password: mypassword
    port: 2089

This is the RAW config.

 cards:
      - aspect_ratio: 70%
        entity: camera.generic_camera_3
        name: Back Door Camera
        show_state: false
        type: picture-entity
      - aspect_ratio: 70%
        entity: camera.generic_camera
        name: Front Door Camera
        show_state: false
        type: picture-entity
      - aspect_ratio: 70%
        entity: camera.foscam_camera
        name: Front Side Camera
        show_state: false
        type: picture-entity
      - aspect_ratio: 70%
        entity: camera.generic_camera_2
        name: Shed Camera
        show_state: false
        type: picture-entity
      - aspect_ratio: 119%
        camera_view: live
        entity: camera.bom_cairns
        name: BOM Saddle Mountain
        show_state: false
        type: picture-entity
      - entity: weather.home_ballina
        name: 'Forecast for #21'
        type: weather-forecast
    icon: 'mdi:home'
    path: default_view
    title: Home

Anyone have any idea what’s happening and how to fix it?

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You cannot count on configs to load in the sequence they are written

The generic camera allows you to define a name

  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: "http://UN:[email protected]/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture"
    stream_source: "rtsp://UN:[email protected]:554/streaming/channels/102"
    name: Camera 1

That should then create camera.camera_1 with the friendly name Camera 1

3

Thank you.
I have made the changes in the configuration.yaml.
I mistakenly thought that once I had moved over to lovelace it could handle things with the visual editor but it seems not.

Hopefully all will be good now.
Thanks again!