Sensor Entity is renamed to sensor.outside_humidity_2

Third party integrations
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#1

I have an ESPHome sensor (BME280) which happily reports outside humidity. I just added a new (completely different device with different name etc) sensor to my setup and for some reason, the entities for my original BME280 sensor are now renamed from:

sensor.outside_humidity to
sensor.outside_humidity_2

I did not touch/update that sensor but now all my dashboards and automation are broken…
Does anyone know how this happens (and how to avoid it)

#2

It happened again this morning… Now the ones which are working are _3 and I had to change everything again. Can someone please give me some guidance on how to avoid this?

#3

The only way this should happen is if you have duplicate entity ids.

You don’t have to re-write all your automations. You can change the entity id in the configuration / entities menu. So change sensor.outside_humidity_2 back to sensor.outside_humidity.

#4

Thanks @tom_l - I’ll check that out as that would be majorly helpful.

Do you know why this is happening though? Is it an ESPHome or Home Assistant issue?

#5
#6

Thanks @tom_l - I don’t specify the entity ID in the ESP Home yaml file at all. I guess I could try doing that to avoid it.

Thanks for the renaming in entity configuration. That worked brilliantly.