Use friendly name in automations, scripts ..etc

Hi,

I would like to see the possibity to use friendly names in automations and scripts.
I think its much better to read and its very easy to change a switch or anything inside automations, by just give the new device the old friendly name.

I hope you know what I mean and its possible to realize :slight_smile:

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Friendly names can include many special characters like spaces that wonโ€™t work with other areas of the programming, so I donโ€™t think this will be a possibility.

I think this is a great idea. I now have many z-wave devices each with many entries. The day will come when the controller will need to be replaced and the network rebuilt. The nodes and entities will come up with different IDs. It would simplify things if we could map device/entity names to more friendly names that could be used elsewhere in automation, scripts, etc.

Perhaps there could be a simple mapping to take friendly names that may contain special characters not allowed in other places and remove or replace those characters. The resulting level of indirection could be very helpful when changing or replacing controllers.