Unique Device Names / Changing Device Names

[swilalaa]

The plugin picks up the device name set up in the webinterface of the shelly device, however it can't be changed afterwards and is not picking up an updated device name.

This causes issues if the shellys are used in plugins such as homebridge-alexa as the devices with the same device names are recognized as duplicates and therefore skipped for adding.

Could you please either build in a logic that creates always unique device names (eg. shelly plus1 N+1) or build in a logic like this that lets the user update the device name in homebridge?

if (this.services[uniq_id] && this.services[uniq_id].service && this.services[uniq_id].service.getCharacteristic(this.Characteristic.ConfiguredName).listenerCount('set') < 1) {

            (this.services[uniq_id].service.getCharacteristic(this.Characteristic.ConfiguredName) ||
              this.services[uniq_id].service.addCharacteristic(this.Characteristic.ConfiguredName))
              .on('set', setConfiguredName.bind(this.services[uniq_id]));
          }

Many thanks in advance!

[nscheffer]

Same for me, any update ?

[HDeKnop]

yes here too