Setup Aqara water sensor w Z2M, does it matter if naming in HA matches

[harryfine]

I setup 7 Aqara water sensor w Z2M. During setup, I renamed them in the Zigbee2MQTT interface. There is a checkbox for sharing naming with HA. Does it matter if naming in HA matches? More important, if I at some point change the name of the device or entity using HA → Settings → Devices → Devices, does it matter that it is now named differently than the z2m setup?

Having said all that, generally what is the relationship of the naming?

Thank you for your thoughts.

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

@harryfine

Does it matter if naming in HA matches? More important, if I at some point change the name of the device or entity using HA → Settings → Devices → Devices, does it matter that it is now named differently than the z2m setup?

It does not matter EXCEPT that it’s orders of magnitude easier to troubleshoot when things go wrong if things have matching names.