naming of entries becomes very convoluted when there is more than 1 device

[Kpapadak1]

The naming of entities becomes very confusing when there is more than 1 EP1 device in HA.

Recommend using $name or ${name} in front of all switches and sensors. example below.

substitutions: name: "living-room-ep1-sensor" room: "living-room" friendly_name: "Everything Presence One" project_name: "Everything Smart Technologies.Everything Presence One" project_version: "1.0.3" temperature_offset: "-3"

esphome: name: "${name}" name_add_mac_suffix: False project: name: "${project_name}" version: "${project_version}"

esp32: board: esp32dev

logger:

api:

ota: password:

wifi: ssid: password:

captive_portal:

improv_serial:

esp32_improv: authorizer: none

dashboard_import: package_import_url: github://everythingsmarthome/presence-one/everything-presence-one.yaml@main import_full_config: false

light:

• platform: status_led name: "${name} ESP32 Status LED" pin: GPIO32

i2c: sda: 26 scl: 25 scan: true

sensor:

• platform: shtcx temperature: name: "${room} Temperature" filters: offset: ${temperature_offset} humidity: name: "${room} Humidity" address: 0x70 update_interval: 60s
• platform: bh1750 name: "${room} Illuminance" address: 0x23 update_interval: 30s

binary_sensor:

• platform: gpio name: ${room} mmWave id: mmwave device_class: occupancy pin: number: GPIO15 mode: INPUT_PULLDOWN
• platform: gpio pin: number: 33 mode: INPUT_PULLDOWN name: ${room} PIR id: pir_motion_sensor device_class: motion filters:
  • delayed_off: 10s
• platform: template name: ${room} Occupancy id: occupancy device_class: occupancy filters:
  • delayed_off: 15s lambda: |- if ( id(mmwave).state or id(pir_motion_sensor).state) { return true; } else if (id(mmwave).state == 0 and id(pir_motion_sensor).state == 0) { return false; } else { return id(occupancy).state; } uart: id: uart_bus tx_pin: GPIO13 rx_pin: GPIO14 baud_rate: 115200 debug: direction: BOTH dummy_receiver: true after: delimiter: "\n" sequence:
  • lambda: UARTDebug::log_string(direction, bytes);

switch:

• platform: safe_mode internal: false name: $name Safe Mode

• platform: template name: "${name} mmWave Sensor" id: "mmwave_sensor" optimistic: true restore_state: true assumed_state: true turn_on_action:

  • uart.write: "sensorStart"
  • delay: 1s turn_off_action:
  • uart.write: "sensorStop"
  • delay: 1s

• platform: template name: "${name} mmWave LED" id: "mmwave_led" optimistic: true restore_state: true assumed_state: true turn_on_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setLedMode 1 0"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor turn_off_action:
  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setLedMode 1 1"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

• platform: template name: "${name} uart_presence_output" id: "uart_presence_output" optimistic: true restore_state: true assumed_state: true turn_on_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setUartOutput 1 1"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor turn_off_action:
  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setUartOutput 1 0"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

• platform: template name: "${name} uart_target_output" id: "uart_target_output" optimistic: true restore_state: true assumed_state: false turn_on_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setUartOutput 2 1 1 1"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor turn_off_action:
  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "setUartOutput 2 0"
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

number:

• platform: template name: $name mmWave Distance id: mmwave_distance min_value: 0 max_value: 800 initial_value: 315 optimistic: true step: 15 restore_value: true unit_of_measurement: cm mode: box set_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: !lambda int cm = (int)ceil(x / 15.0); std::string cms = "detRangeCfg -1 0 " + to_string(cm); return std::vector(cms.begin(), cms.end());
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveCfg 0x45670123 0xCDEF89AB 0x956128C6 0xDF54AC89"
  • delay: 1s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

• platform: template name: $name mmWave Off Latency id: mmwave_latency min_value: 0 max_value: 65000 initial_value: 12500 optimistic: true step: 25 restore_value: true unit_of_measurement: ms mode: box set_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: !lambda int ms = (int)ceil(x / 25.0); std::string mss = "outputLatency -1 0 " + to_string(ms); return std::vector(mss.begin(), mss.end());
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveCfg 0x45670123 0xCDEF89AB 0x956128C6 0xDF54AC89"
  • delay: 1s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

• platform: template name: $name mmWave Sensitivity id: mmwave_sensitivity min_value: 0 max_value: 9 initial_value: 7 optimistic: true step: 1 restore_value: true set_action:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: !lambda std::string mss = "setSensitivity " + to_string((int)x); return std::vector(mss.begin(), mss.end());
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "saveConfig"
  • delay: 1s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

button:

• platform: restart name: Restart $name

• platform: template name: "${name} Factory Reset mmWave" id: "factory_reset_mmwave" on_press:

  • switch.turn_off: mmwave_sensor
  • delay: 1s
  • uart.write: "resetCfg"
  • delay: 3s
  • switch.turn_on: mmwave_sensor

[elvismercado]

I have some Wemos D1 Mini doing something else on my home assistant. And when i sterted with these devices i also noticed that the naming of the sensors can get tricky when using similar sensors on multiple devices. So to make naming (and the id's) a little bit easier to track and manage i prepend a room name and a friendly_name or name to the sensor i am defining.

See example of the wifi signal sensor. Each device that i configure like this will be easily located through room and friendlyname: