Hue Philips

[James Sentman]

Hello Henk,

It’s definitely not supposed to do that. The important parts are the address and the device type. If those are the same then no re-naming should ever occur. If they are different then a new unit will be created with the default name, but after that you should be able to rename the unit to your liking and as long as the address and device type don’t change then neither should the name. It will never rename a unit once it’s in your database.

I see multiple units at those addresses, like bookcase has 2 units now at address 335 and living room has 2 units at 336 and Hall Light has 2 units at 337.

Do I understand from looking at this that you’re using the Vera plugin for the Hue hub and not the native XTension plugin for the Hue? This should still work but I wonder what made you choose to do that? Can you open the edit window for the 2 identical apart from the name units there and let me know what they both say for their device type? You can drop me a note with that info off the list.

Thanks,
 James


> On Jan 3, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Hendrik W. M. van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> The bolded unit are renamed by XTension.  Does that mean that I have to go through all the scripts to enter the new name.  I deleted the bolded units and restarted XT and they showed up again.  I cannot rename the Vera units with the XTension name because they are too long.
> 
> What to do?
> I am not convinced that the uncontrolled auto renaming of units is such a good idea.  It can be very confusing and make for a lot of extra work.
> 

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