New Category & Labels feature Discussion

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Having the ability to add labels into yaml code is what is needed. Currently when writing customisations / integrations for things (especially that are then used by others) I end up having to prefix an identifier into the sensor etc name/unique_id.
Being able to instead to this like (below) would be beneficial:

Now:

  hs_grid_imported_daily:
    unique_id: hs_grid_imported_daily
    name: HS Grid - Imported Daily
    source: sensor.power_meter_consumption

With Labels:

  grid_imported_daily:
    unique_id: grid_imported_daily
    name: "Grid - Imported Daily"
    labels: "Huawei Solar, Utility Meters"
    source: sensor.power_meter_consumption

Also makes the accompanying cards and other sensors, such as for Energy Usage/Billing tracking, integration agnostic… potentially allowing users of other integrations to reuse them more easily if all using agnostic sensors like grid_imported_daily

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