Since i have customized or altered some of my devices, and others that have a specific history that i want to discriminate from other similar ones (eg, this one only connects through 2.4G wifi, that one i painted over the bright LED to make it night friendly, the other i cut off the sensor and use it to sense from my own electronics, etc), it would be great if HomeAssistant could have some user-editable memo field within the Device Info section of each device. I’m sure most of them would never have any user add anything, but some important ones would.
It would be super-useful, for example, to have some way to keep track of which user codes are programmed into each of the door locks. An editable memo entry could serve all purposes, including this one, with only minimal programming effort, until properly working integrations eventually get developed. (yes, i’m aware of keymaster, but it just slowed my system to a crawl, and caused lots of problems, and now i can’t even uninstall it, so it doesn’t work for me).
You can add comments if editing with YAML not the UI. You can add alias’s to many things which gives you a line of text. Some constructs have descriptions, like the automations, scripts, so you can add a lot of stuff there.
Thanks. Those are good programmer-friendly options, just not very mainstream friendly. I’m hardly a programmer, but i muddle through enough for this. Would it be any simpler to have a button for a user-entered log book entry record that always stays visible?