Reset / Re-acquire entity_id

Feature Requests
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Hello,

A feature I am longing for a long time is to reset the entity_id, i.e., re-acquire the entity id from the ground truth source (e.g. Hue, Z-Wave JS, …).

Often, entities, such as lights are renamed. Renaming in the Hue App or Z-Wave JS is not propagated Home Assistant’s entity_id .

Concrete user story:

Recently, I moved to a new apartment and for that, many of my connected smart devices were also moved, e.g. “Light Kitchen” became “Light Bedroom”. I changed the name of devices in the e.g. Hue App or the Z-Wave JS UI. However, these changes were not reflected in the entitiy_id and therefore I had to perform these manually for quite some entities.

another user story

I buy a new light and add it to the hue system. HA immediately notices and gives that new device the entity id light.hue_aurelle_panel_1. Next thing I do in Hue is to rename it to “Kitchen Ceiling”. However, this rename is never reflected in the HA’s entity id.

This feature request is about adding a functionality to integration to explicitly request to re-read the entity id from the original source.

This should be explicit, as it has the potential to break automations or dashboards.

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Best Regards and Thanks a lot!

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I came here looking for a feature like this. It is very frustrating when I have edited the names/entity_ids of my entities a long time past, and wish to reset them back to default so that renaming the device automatically propagates the name to the entity_ids. Without being able to “reset” them like this, I have thousands of entities that remain in complete disarray.

Please give us a method, even if something code/technical, to achieve this result!