Hi, first time posting here. So ive loaded HA on a raspberry pi 4. instralled hacs and broughts my sonoff devices in to Ha with alexIt in hacs. They all show up and work. Ive integrated with alea and can activate any light.
My question is in home assistant if i do autaomations in the user interface i cannot select a device and find my entities. Im told elsewhere that i need to call service and find tehm there. which i have.
I started to try to use node red and learn that but i find when i select “call service” and go to select my item in “entity id” the items are listed as number etc but not by name so I cannot define what the sonoff item is.
Im sure there is a way to find the entity name by usefull name and not entity ID that means nothing.
Can anybody explain more please. ANd thanks in advance.
ps ive also added a node red add on on hacs. and saved and restarted etc.
A second question but ive yet to read more and watch more videos yet but when i activate a flow that i think is configured correctly i get a message in debug that says
msg : string[82]
‘“call service node is missing api “domain” property, not found in config or payload”’
im not sure where to start here.