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How do you organize your HA devices (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 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.

  1. Is there a best practice for renaming devices ? Do you name them by their location ? By their utility ? manufacturer ?
  2. 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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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

I thought this was implemented on the dashboard. I don't recall what exactly it's called (context cards?) but I recall you could click a button to show a separate card or click and have it open a second 'tab' on the dashboard to control more things like with your scene controller.