Renaming Entities

I recently had to migrate my config to a totally new install. I got everything up and running but then noticed I cannot rename some zwave entities. I saw a similar post to this and noticed everything it changed in 0.63 to where you can no longer rename them.

Well, this is now a pain to migrate. All of my yaml files reference my old naming scheme- i.e switch.light_living_room vs now it is a very non descript switch.switch_1. The names were previously from my zwcfg*.xml file (which I did copy over) but it is not sticking. Is there no way to change these? I now have to reference two other browser windows just to write a simple automation. switch.switch_1 is super unhelpful. I really don’t want to use the webui to build these either- it is far more time consuming than coding myself.

Change them in your entity registry.

Shame this hasn’t been fixed yet tbh.

Ahhh I was not even aware of that file. I will give that a try. Thanks!