By looking at this again I just remember that actually you can already do this by setting a custom entity name template from MQTT discovery settings :) If you want label to be included you can use %l in the template. Under the input there is a helper to help you doing this. The default template is %ln_%o that means the node name + object id

Thing is that I’m already using “ _%o” as the template to not break previous functionality of using for example “relay_switch_3” as entityID in automations. With setting this “ _%o”, I’m getting the exact same behaviour as before, so I don’t have to revisit all of my automations. At some point HA discovery have been changed, and since then, only “_switch_3” was discovered as the entityID as HA omits the “%ln” part of the default discovery template.

All names are generated by this function so what could be the solution here? I mean I cannot make it work differently only for configuration CC values otherwise that would be a breaking change

As far as I know, currently no "Friendly Name" is set during MQTT Discovery, only the entity_id gets populated. So this should be a new field, or?

@richardstone Oh ok I didn't know about that, I thought you were asking for a change in current discovery payload not adding a new property :) Does setting a friendly name in payload overrides an existing friendly name you give to them? Also can I set this from discovery payload?

Currently I have no clue on how this works in code, unfortunately.
Since we are talking about setting this at discovery time, it should only address the name at the initial discovery of each entity.

@richardstone the discovery payload is sent on each app restart or every time home assistant restart, there is no way to know if that entity already exists or not this is why I'm asking. I'm scared that adding this could force change all the entities friendly names of other users

Can this be done then the same way you enabled the configuration of the config entities?

you mean throught gateway values table?

Yes, this could be another checkbox as well, if one would like to propogate the actual parameter name as friendly name.

I don't see mentions of "frendly name" in discovery payload, not sure if it's possible to set it, IMO it's something that only user can change

So this is basically not working: Friendly name setting for values? Or am I misunderstanding something? (sorry for my weak TS knowledge :D )