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

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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] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For my Zigbee things I use this

example:

00 - Sensor - Hall - PIR - Motion
01 - Switch - Bedroom 01 - Main Light

So to break it down:

First 2 numbers represent the floor, 00 = Ground, 01 First Floor and so on.
Describes the type of device.
Room Name.
Describes the Function of Device, eg PIR, Temperature Sensor, Contact Sensor….
Used to describe the entities of the device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if a device has multiple entities, you rename each one ? i.e. a hygrometer that measures humidity and temperature, you name each one separately ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, if a device has multiple entities I leave the names as they are. HA will append them to the name of the device

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

10 floors, 0 basements.