I have a naming system. It has worked well for 8 years. Now you are forcing me to change this and ruining my carefully laid out dashboards. I understand creating a structured naming scheme for new users is beneficial but there are many existing users that do not need or want this. Make it optional. …

I gave you an example above where you use the friendly name of the entity. If the friendly name is removed then the script/automation/template that uses it will not function

Hellis, I think you think there will be a ton of changes without realizing there will not be. This is what I’m saying.

Yes, and you can already do a find replace for that using entity_name in whatever template that is.

Yes, but why??? Why do I need to fix everything they keep breaking for me?

There are many reasons to remove the attribute, the main contender is that it add memory to every call. This ultimately will make things faster in the long run because the data shouldn’t be in the state machine, or the database, or in every state changed event… list goes on. Also, just understand …

Remember this thread? [image] Who decides on changes that affect users, and can we be heard before beta? Social I mean, this is fair feedback. We can work to improve our process in this area for sure. We have to remember though that a single person disliking s…

The name changes have been announced for a long time, along with the removal of friendly_name. You just missed it. Here’s the commit to my own configuration that moved from friendly_name to entity_name function/filter. update templates to use entity_name …

Petro. I get why you’re saying. And… The dev team has said exactly NONE OF THIS to users in a forum not named Discord or come read in Git. Do you know the mem usage thing you just said. THAT’S LITERALLY the first time I’ve heard anyone mention it. (I had suspected btw) Again normal users don’t rea…

[image] NathanCu: The dev team has said exactly NONE OF THIS to users in a forum not named Discord or come read in Git. Do you know the mem usage thing you just said. THAT’S LITERALLY the first time I’ve heard anyone mention it. (I had suspected btw) It was said in the beta thread on this ver…

In the beta thread which they have ALREADY SAID suck it up… it it’s too late now… (see the problem?)

WTH are you forcing naming schemes on us?

Month of "What the heck?!"

Hellis81 (Hellis81) November 1, 2026, 12:43pm 29

Remember this thread?

Just a few weeks ago the talk was we should try to not break stuff.

And I called it.. I said I don’t believe it hold for very long.
And sure enough just a few weeks later we are here again.