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OpenEPaperLink / Home_Assistant_Integration

Home assistant Integration for the OpenEPaperLink project
https://openepaperlink.de
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Please make the open_epaper_link entities to be part of the devices, and give them an unique ID #66

Closed davefx closed 9 months ago

davefx commented 10 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At this moment, the created open_epaper_link.* entities, the ones used in the service, doesn't belong to any Home Assistant device. According to the interface, they don't have an unique ID, so they cannot be moved into a room, or can be renamed.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great if the entities are given an unique ID, so they can be renamed. Also, IMHO they should be configured as part of the corresponding devices.

Fettkeewl commented 10 months ago

I second this, not being able to rename or associate entities properly with devices forces us to keep track of the MAC for identification. Will get annoying rather quickly when racking up dozens of devices

emufan commented 9 months ago

I would like to see this as well. Same for the cam-entitiy. All of them should be part of the corresponding devices.

jterrace commented 9 months ago

Is this part of 0.4.4? I tried renaming one of my tags. All the named entities that were previously named with the device names are still correct, e.g. sensor.name_batter, sensor.name_rssi, etc. But the camera entity is still not named using the device name. It's named like camera.0000021edf9a3b15_cam which doesn't tell me which device it's part of. Is renaming the device (including renaming all entities) supposed to rename the camera?

Fettkeewl commented 9 months ago

Is this part of 0.4.4? I tried renaming one of my tags. All the named entities that were previously named with the device names are still correct, e.g. sensor.name_batter, sensor.name_rssi, etc. But the camera entity is still not named using the device name. It's named like camera.0000021edf9a3b15_cam which doesn't tell me which device it's part of. Is renaming the device (including renaming all entities) supposed to rename the camera?

I think that the rename feature of home assistant performs a 'search and replace'. That being said and if that is the case, if your camera does not contain the same name in the entity name as the device name prior to doing a name change it wont follow. I wager you'd have to rename it manually this time to match your other entities containing \<devicename>_battery \<devicename>_rssi etc

jonasniesner commented 9 months ago

The names of the Tags are now taken from the AP