Distinguishing (and Naming) Multiple Sensors

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@deltaphi

You can see that there are two distinct sensors (readings are different) with the same name. The entities are helpfully named “sensor.ruuvitag_rawv2_tempc” and “sensor.ruuvitag_rawv2_tempc_2”.

Hello,

This may be due to the change of unique_id introduced recently, you will have to delete the older MQTT messages into the homeassistant/sensor topic see here

@deltaphi

I would like to ensure a consistent numbering of sensors across reboot.

You should not see a sensor name change upon reboot, OMG publish the discovery messages with a unique_id compose of -, example :

{"stat_t":"+/+/BTtoMQTT/481234564789","name":"IBEACON-power","uniq_id":"481234564789-power","val_tpl":"{{ value_json.power | is_defined }}","state_class":"measurement","device":{"identifiers":["481234564789"],"connections":[["mac","481234564789"]],"manufacturer":"GENERIC","model":"IBEACON","name":"IBEACON","via_device":"OMG_PLUG"}}