Node Red Entity ID

First off, please bear with me - I’m a COMPLETE noob with HA.

I just set Home Assistant Blue up today, added my Z Wave and Zigbee sticks and added a couple Z Wave devices ( 2 motion sensors and 1 switch). Then I installed Node Red. Started creating a flow and I see in the Entity ID box all I have is the generic name instead of what I named it.

So I have “Motion_UtilityRoom_Rear” but it shows in Node Red as “binary_sensor.dome_z_wave_motion_detector.blah blah blah” and I have “Motion_UtilityRoom_Door” that shows as “binary_sensor.motion_sensor_any”. How do I get the name I assigned to show up in Node Red?

you must use the binary_sensor.dome_z_wave_motion_detector, that’s the name the computer works with.

You could rename your binary_sensor.dome_z_wave_motion_detector to binary_sensor.Motion_UtilityRoom_Rear under Configuration/Entities in HA. Not sure if the caps will work though.