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[Feature Request] better usability with Entity ID and Naming #4555

@Ltek

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Battery Notes names its sensors based only on the device name in the device registry, not the friendly name of the native battery sensor. It also just blindly append numbers to the Entity IDs... and this, creates inconsistencies and usability challenges for many things.

BN then creates duplicate names with no each way to know which is tied to what actual device without looking at the Area properties... the Entity ID nor the Entity Name help. So as it is with my setup, I now have 4 BN device with named "Shade Remote Battery+" and multiple entity duplicate names for all my shades (Shade 1, Shade 3, Shade 3, etc) also.
And the entity IDs are not consistent as seen below...

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Describe the solution you'd like

Keep all entities tied to a single device using a consistent Entity ID nomenclature, some examples...

EntityName_RoomName_number (and keep all the related items with the same number... not like what happens where some may be 2, some 3

Describe alternatives you've considered

non exists other than manually renaming / re-IDing ... doing that for 273 Battery Notes entities is not a recommended task

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