WTH no aliases & friendly names for google assitant exposed entities?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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WTH there are no aliases & friendly names available for google assitant exposed entities? Would be a great help to use the google asssitant voice regocnition!

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I’m assuming you mean in the UI? Because this is possible in yaml.

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Many thx petro! I tried it several times in the past but never spotted this syntax. Mayby the documntation envolved…

If you set up google assistant withou using Nabu casa cloud the syntax is:

**google_assistant:**
  entity_config:
    switch.eg_bad_leuchte_dusche:
      name: "Bad Dusche"
      aliases:
        - "Bad Spiegel"
      room: "Bad"

using nabu casa cloud it it different syntax:

cloud:
  **google_actions:**
    entity_config:
      switch.eg_bad_leuchte_dusche:
        name: "Bad Dusche"
        aliases:
          - "Bad Spiegel"
        room: "Bad"

So WTH there are two diffenret syntax? Anyhow would be great to have the topic included in the GUI. :slightly_smiling_face:

At least its now working for me!