Shelly device renaming help

crazeeeyez · June 21, 2022, 6:09am

I am really hoping I’m missing something stupid here. I have several Shelly devices on my network. I use ShellyForHASS without any real issues. Everything is local (no Shelly cloud).

However, when I look at the device in Settings/Devices, the names are meaningless:

So I click the pencil icon to rename the switch and I get this question (warning) about renaming entity IDs:

No matter which option I choose, I always end up with unavailable entities afterwards:

The switch doesn’t work etc. In order to restore my device for control, I have to delete the device. It then gets auto-discovered and re-added with the old useless name.

BTW I have added both a Channel and Device Name on the Shelly as well.

Any pointers or tips will be appreciated!

tom_l · June 21, 2022, 6:39am

Set the name in your devices (use the web settings page each device has).
Set the unicast address as well while you are there, if using Gen 1 devices.
Use the core Shelly integration. It is local too.

sirpreis · March 9, 2023, 2:40pm

Is there anyway to have the devices in the Shelly device list be renamed? I just renamed all of my Shellys to “readable” names, used the HA IP for the unicast address, rebooted the SHellys, but the names in the device list stay like this:

Do I have to remove and re-add them?

tom_l · March 9, 2023, 3:15pm

No there’s no need to do that.

Click on one of the devices in that list, then click the three dots icon and select “Rename”.

Airbag888 · October 15, 2023, 12:47pm

Should it not pull the names from the shelly device? I have device and channel set already for 15 devices. I removed and re added the shelly for Hass integration which repopulated the devices to no avail…

DreadN · December 21, 2023, 8:52pm

Have the same problem, renaming some devices seems impossible.
I’ve just migrated from shelly4hass that worked like a charm, to the shelly native integration. But the latter is totally inconsistent…

Has zero config parameters and this is totally frustrating.

trueKAMi · April 9, 2024, 7:27am

Same for me, the renaming is inconsistent on a lot of the shelly devices, i’ts a bit of a mess. I’m on the native integration.

When i rename a device, following this method, the device gets renamed, and you can see this in the Device Info page:

But this never gets updated in the Shelly device list, so it’s hard to see which device is which, and i end up switching devices to find the right one.

Is this a bug i should report somewhere? I’m happy to provide more info.

tom_l · April 9, 2024, 7:45am

There are two places you can renname the device:

Here in the integration device list:

And here on the device page:

.

They change the device name in different locations.

Why are there two different device names for the same device?

I have no idea.

roens · September 12, 2024, 6:14am

I’m also wondering about this. I’ve got several Shelly 3EM meters. When I added them to HA, I named each channel of each meter in the Shelly webUI of each meter. HA picked up those names. Now, I’ve repurposed a couple channels on a meter, and have renamed those channels, again in the Shelly webUI. But HA is stuck using the old names for all of the sub-sensors for each channel (each 3EM channel records 6 metrics: current, energy, energy returned, power, power factor, and voltage).

I was already aware that an entity can be re-named, but that seems like an override, instead of just using the name provided by the device. This applies to HA entities that are picked up from a Shelly device. There are two possible names: the name within the device, and the name for any entities associated in HA.

I would rather have HA pick up the name defined in the Shelly device. I wonder… removing the device from HA, then re-adding it would probably do it, but then I’d imagine I’d also loose all the historical data collected in HA for that device, which is less than desirable.