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How do you organize your HA devices (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a concoction of devices from all kind of manufacturers with cryptic codes in their names. Each device exposes multitude of sensors which makes the dashboard look like a mess.

Is there a best practice for renaming devices ? Do you name them by their location ? By their utility ? manufacturer ?
How do you identify the devices later in case there's a problem and one needs to be replaced / battery need to be replaced ?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Before areas was a thing in HASS I would name things with an area name. ESP32-5-Bedroom. Now I just leave it what ever it defaults to, then use HASS to name them, and then put them in an area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How do you et HASS to name them ? i,e. what names does it chose ? So basically you leave the location out of the name as that is shown in the area anyway ? Thing is, that sometimes you need to choose a device from a dropdown, and in these dropdowns they don't show the area, so having the location sometime gives more information that is missing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So I don't think HASS really names them, I think they have a default/preset name on themselves, like "TZ3000_2"