Tasmota: Change binary sensor name in mqtt discovery

Created on 12 Jan 2019 · 9Comments · Source: arendst/Tasmota

Hi,
I have set up a sonoff with a PIR on gpio14 with "SwitchMode2 1" so the relais won't be switched with the PIR. Enabled SetOption19 en rebooted. In the console i get to see:

21:11:27 MQT: homeassistant/switch/583785_RL_1/config = {"name":"Sonoff-01",.......
and
21:11:27 MQT: homeassistant/binary_sensor/583785_SW_2/config = {"name":"Sonoff2 SW",......

I would like to change the switch2 name from "Sonoff2 SW" to "Sonoff-01 SW2" to be more in sync with the given friendly name (Sonoff-01).

How can i do this?

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When using Home Assistant Discovery, you can change the displayed name in Home Assistant right from the Home Assistance interface

ascillato on 12 Jan 2019

Closing this issue as it has been answered.

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ascillato2 on 12 Jan 2019

Yes i was aware of renaming in Home Assistant, but i would like to rename it in the sonoff so it gets the proper entity ID in Home Assistant.
On second thought, what happens if there is an other sonoff that's configured the same way by using "SwitchMode2 1"... i guess this will also be named as "Sonoff2 SW" which will result in binary_sensor.sonoff2_sw again?

kurniawan77 on 13 Jan 2019

Yes, you are right, but that will depends on your friendly name. Try to put different names for different devices.

ascillato on 14 Jan 2019

Done that. But like i said earlier, it is not in sync with the given friendly name (Sonoff-01).
Please, i dont want to be rude but you closed my issue without answering properly. I would like to know if it is possible to change the switch2 name in sonoff and how to do.

kurniawan77 on 14 Jan 2019

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I was wondering the same. On the main Tasmota web ui, I have DS18B20-1, DS18B20-2, DS18B20-3.

How can these be renamed to friendly names? I am assuming they cant?

ryaske on 19 Nov 2019

Done that. But like i said earlier, it is not in sync with the given friendly name (Sonoff-01).
Please, i dont want to be rude but you closed my issue without answering properly. I would like to know if it is possible to change the switch2 name in sonoff and how to do.

Have You already found the answer to what you were saying at the beginning of this post ????
I am with the same dude/Problem.

Thanks

ElvisJaime on 4 Jan 2020

I'd like to know the answer too.
I do not believe this question was ever answerd. I am unsure why it was closed.
The question was how to rename the switch in the Tasmota/Sonoff firmware, not how to rename it in Home Assistant.
If the answer is no they can't be renamed in Tasmota, that would have been appreciated rather than closing the issue and saying it was answered.....
This still issue still comes up in Google searches.

austwhite on 2 May 2020

I do not believe this question was ever answerd. I am unsure why it was closed.

This is a very old issue (more than a year old) and duplicated. It was already answered in other issues. Sorry that this was your first searching result.

In Home Assistant it can be changed form the Home Assistant interface.

In Tasmota can't be modified as a common config, because it is meant to be used in your home automation software. But if you really need a specific TOPIC and PAYLOAD for your switch, you can use a rule as explained in the docs.

Example:

Asumming a Switch2 connected to a PIR sensor and that switchmode2 is set to 1, and you want that the switch2 is being sent as PIR_GARAGE with payloads MOV and NO_MOV. So, your desided mqtt message would:

for switch2 with 1 sent:
stat/GARAGE/PIR_GARAGE MOV

and for switch2 with 0 sent:
stat/GARAGE/PIR_GARAGE NO_MOV

You can solve that using the following rules that must be typed in the Tasmota Console:

switchmode2 1
rule1 1
rule1 on switch2#state=0 do publish stat/GARAGE/PIR_GARAGE NO_MOV endon on switch2#state=1 do publish stat/GARAGE/PIR_GARAGE MOV endon

Hope this solves your issue/question.

If you need further assistance on Tasmota usage, please, address this to the Tasmota Support Chat. The chat is a better and more dynamic channel for helping you. Github issues are meant for Tasmota Software Bug Reporting.

Thanks.

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