2 fhem-connections with the same device-names

justme-1968 / alexa-fhem

Anbindung von FHEM über Alexa Smart Home Skill und/oder Custom Skill

https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/FHEM_Connector

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2 fhem-connections with the same device-names #29

Closed vafgoettlich closed 2 months ago

vafgoettlich commented 3 months ago

Dear Maintainer,

first of all I like to thank you for your work. I am running 2 fhem-instances (each on a different floor). I'm having a dummy-devices on both of them called Alle_Rolllaeden (all_shutters in english) to close / open all of them at the same time.

I have added a alexaName Attribute but unfortunately I cannot add the second one because:

[7/26/2024, 6:59:11 AM] [OG] Alle_Rolllaeden is already published
[7/26/2024, 6:59:11 AM] [OG] no device created for Alle_Rolllaeden (dummy)

Maybe the connection-Name or something like that should be added to identify the device, or am I doing things wrong?

justme-1968 commented 3 months ago

internally the check is actually not using the name but the fhem inform id. which unfortunately is based on the name :(. i could probably use the fuuid for this check, but the inform id is used in several other places as well and is actually what fhem sends in its events. so i'm not sure if there would be any other side effects but i will think about a possible change.

i would suggest renaming the devices to Alle_Rolllaeden_OG or something similar and then use an alias in fhem if you want to see the old names in the web ui.

out of curiosity: why do you use two instances for different floors? this prohibits any automations that are linked to both floors and i would think some duplication in other places as well.

vafgoettlich commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the fast response. About your question why I am operating 2 fhem-instances I would like to describe the setup a bit:

I have one unipi neuron: https://www.unipi.technology/ in the breakerbox of each floor
nearly everything of my devices are hardwired to that unipi-device
on the device I am running evok + fhem to use the ports

Now the reason:

Currently we are using both floors for our family, but the house is build to have each floor as a seperate flat (i.E. for rent). So for future maybe the networks will be splitted
I want to reduce the risk of a hardware-/software-/...failure. If anything fails on floor 1 floor 2 has still working switches, lights and shutters
I do not have the usecase (expect alexa) to automate things together in floor 1 and floor 2 ;-)

justme-1968 commented 3 months ago

that makes sense :) thanks