WTH Entity names are pure chaos

[radiocolin (Colin)]

Entity names. They are pure chaos. There’s no way to manage them in bulk, or at least make them consistent within a device/type of device. If you change one, it breaks EVERYTHING that uses it.

[tom_l]

This is why you set entity names that you like as you add devices - before you start using them.

As for this:

@radiocolin

If you change one, it breaks EVERYTHING that uses it.

It is a duplicate of:

WTH is there no "refactor" functionality when changing an entity name?

We already have a search by entity name, it would be great if we had a refactor functionality that changes the entity name in all locations (lovelace, automations, scrtips, etc.) when changing the entity name.