New Hue bulb gets wrong name

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Hello,
I bought a new hue bulb that replaces a existing one in my lamp (wrong socket). So I renamed the old bulb in the hue app, add the new one and restart home assistant.

Unfortunately the new bulb only gets the original name from Philips (hue_candle_1) but not the name, which I renamed it to.

Home Assistant shows me the correct name as “friendly_name” but the entity name is (for me) wrong. Is it possible to name it correctly. Otherwise I had to check all automations and so on and replace the name.

Thx.

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Click on the lamp in the frontend. In the popup click the settings button (cog, upper right) , change name, save.

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if that happens, HA was faster than you in adding the light to its list of entities :wink:

most likely it will be added at the bottom of the entity_registry. Simply delete that and have HA re-enter it with its correct name at next boot.

Had the exact same thing ten minutes ago, never fails

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entity_registry.yaml has been (re)moved. It is no longer desirable (or supported) to edit that file. You should do all of the renaming of those entities in the GUI.

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im still on 75.3 should have mentioned that…

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Definitely. Makes a BIG difference. :smile:

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Lol, yes, at least i am still able to log in… :wink: