Independents friendly_name and entity_id

[outofsight]

Hello,

it would be useful to be able to set fliendly_name and entity_id in an independent way.
This apply to sensor, switch, ...

Currently we can set friendly_name and entity_id will be the slugified version of it.

It would be useful to keep entity_id to some internal english programmatic identifier but the friendly_name to a end-user localized string.

We can do this with customize: in Home Assistant but it's more complicate.

[zachowj]

the entity_id is only set on the first the deploy. Changing the field after the first deployment will only change the friendly_name.

[outofsight]

Interesting, thanks, I'll use this way in the meanwhile.

But I think it would be useful to have two "fields" in the node, one to document the correct entity_id to reference in HA/YAML, and another to view/set/change the default friendly_name.