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How do you replace devices? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by EarMaster@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I recently had to replace an old Zigbee bulb that had stopped working properly. How do you handle this? Do you manually replace all instances of this device in all automations, scenes, etc.? Or is there a magic button I am not aware of that makes this easier? At least I could use Spook to let me know which places I need to look at, but especially for scenes it is a pain because you need to reconfigure the settings for the device manually.

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[–] franzbroetchen@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For me the magic is to use entities for everything, not raw devices. If I replace a device I just assign all of its entities the same IDs they had before and everything keeps working. I don't think this is highlighted as prominently as it should be, but I found this advice on Reddit back in the day and got rid of a lot of the issues with my setup

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

My perception is that the devices are more forward when configuring automations than the entities. Maybe I’m mistaken.

But that is how I do it all. Devices are too much trouble. I learned when I reassigned some outlets.