Script friendly name

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The only way I have been able to call a script is by using the script id. Is there any way to use a friendly name instead? I am using HA 0.98.3 and would like to make my automations more readable.

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You could use some more readable names for scripts, for example “turn_off_lights_by_presence”.

The alias (friendly name) is mor UI-oriented, for automatons you should use the id.

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For anything you must use the entity_id. That is the only thing guaranteed unique, and how Home Assistant identifies entities.

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What I found was that the ID must start with a number, but you can change it, eg:

My Script Has:

cat volup20.yaml
'20volup':
  alias: VolUp20
  sequence:
  - data: {}
    entity_id: media_player.freesoftwareservers
    service: media_player.volume_up

And I can call via:

data: {}
service: script.20volup