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

submitted 10 months ago by barbarosa@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@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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[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

As a side note, I really wish folders were implemented for devices and automations and such. Especially since I have a scene controller (and another on the way) with several buttons, each of which can have 6 different triggers (pressing 1-5 times or holding the button down). Oh, and more for the LEDs.

[-] padook@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Yes! Especially automations! I would rather have tags than folders, so an automation could fit into more than one category (eg. Location, action) but I'd take anything over alphabetical!!

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