Changing the Name of the Device in HASS.agent makes Media Player Unavailable
The device name was originally the PC so I changed in to somthing more user friendly and it made the media player go unavailable.
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does the HA show new discovered device/media player with the new name?
unwilling-turquoiseOP•5d ago
Nope. I initially changed the name in HomeAssistant and it broke it. So I looked in the HASS Agent app and saw where you can change the name there so I made it match what I had changed it to in Home Assistant and it still showed as unavailable.
Then I uninstalled everything from HomeAssistant and HASS agent from the PC and started from scratch. I even manually deleted the left over installed folders on the PC.
Reinstalled everything, during the HASS Agent install on the PC I made sure to name it what I wanted during the install. It showed up as auto discovered in HA but with the old name I don't want still. I added it and changed the name in HA to match the name I input when installing the PC app but it was still unavailable.
The only way I can get it to work is if in the PC app I put the original name in that I don't want to use and use that same name in HA as well. Any change from that name and it breaks.