customize friendly_name

[spali]

Could also be in a question for the node-red package. But maybe the Integration API is the limit here.

I had success with creating dynamic entities with nodered/discovery with the API node from the node-red.
Same for updating with nodered/entity to set state and attributes.

But I would like to set the name (entity_id) and friendly_name independent of each other.
Reason is I try to keep all entities in English, but would like to customize the friendly_name in German.
I know, I could set this in HA itself and overwrite the friendly_name, but this would break with my dynamic creation of the entities and I like to have the creation reproducible.

Is it possible to specifically set the firendly_name in nodered/discovery or nodered/entity that is different from the name ?

I tried already with updating firendly_name as attribute and also changing config after creation, but no luck. Is this somehow supported or would this be a good feature request? ;)

[zachowj]

The first time you register an entity using nodered/discovery it uses the name field to create an entity_id based on the name field or a combination of the server_id and node_id. Any updates sent to nodered/discovery using the same server_id and node_id will only change the name field and not the entity_id.

You could do back-to-back API calls to nodered/discovery with the second one containing the German name in the name property. Not the best solution but should work for what you're trying to do.

[spali]

thank you so much, it worked.
Didn't got the idea to reuse the nodered/discovery call a second time... I already had a back-to-back API call with nodered/entity, but that didn't work obviously. But second call to nodered/discovery worked as expected.