The templates use and require friendly_name
to be defined, but this changes the entity names in HA, where the default is to use the device_name
that is by definition unique across instances.
E.g. multiple devices with different device_names
using the same friendly_name
will have similarly named entities, requiring HA to make them unique by means of appending numeric values.
It seems that an alternate (maybe more common/standard) approach would be to use the comment
field to describe the device, and not use friendly_name
as it changes entity naming?