After updating to Home Assistant Core 2025.5.0, all of my ESPHome entities started including the device name as a prefix (e.g., ESP32 Living Room Light) #25436
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After updating to Home Assistant Core 2025.5.0, all of my ESPHome entities started including the device name as a prefix (e.g., ESP32 Living Room Light), which has completely disrupted the naming structure across thousands of entities in my setup.
This change has severely impacted the organization of my dashboards and broke naming consistency across key integrations like Apple HomeKit, which now shows all devices with these verbose names.
Unfortunately, the only working solution I found so far was to downgrade to version 2025.4.4, which restored the previous naming behavior. I understand the motivation behind the change (PR #143049), but for larger setups, this breaks things badly — especially without a way to opt out or mass-apply friendly names.
Has anyone found a way to batch fix or override this behavior, without having to manually set the name: or friendly_name: for each entity one by one ?
Any tips or tools to help automate this would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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