Unable to change Entity ID of ESPHome sensors

I made a few AirGradient air quality sensors and loaded ESPHome onto the ESP8266’s. They have entity IDs of sensor.humidity, sensor.humidity_2, etc. I’d like to rename them to sensor.roomname.humidity. Searching tells me to do that in Configuration>Entities but when I try, HA returns “Invalid entity ID.” Same thing happens in Developer Tools>States>sensorname. This is really stumping me - what am I overlooking? Thanks!

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Try it without the second period. I dont think periods are allowed past (to the right of) the domain separator. Try something like underscores…

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Ah thank you! Seems like dashes - and periods . are not usable, but underscores are.