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Lots of integrations seem to add special characters like brackets in their device names. This is well and good EXCEPT for the fact that if you then try to change the device name, the entitiy names won’t change because they’re different.
Take for example the HomeWizard integration (this is just an example, there are others as well):
They create devices like “KWh meter 3-phase (5c21zsr9eh6)” which then has entities like:
sensor.kwh_meter_3_phase_5c21zsr9eh6_active_power
sensor.kwh_meter_3_phase_5c21zsr9eh6_active_power_phase_1
.....
BUT because those brackets aren’t in the entity names. If you change the device name, they won’t change with.
I think it’s related to the brackets in the name somehow?
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