Device name 20 character limit?

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Just received my Vera Edge and I’m pulling my hair out… this is without the considerable time it takes for the iOS app to load, or the amount of clicks/taps required to do simple things in the apps/UI…

There seems to be a 20 character device name limit and all device names have to be unique? I have at least 10 lots of ‘Downlights’ to configure, not to mention various under-light-strips, but find I have to pre/post-fix something on the end to make them unique? It’s madness!

Am running the latest version of firmware, latest reported by the UI being 1.7.1181, along with the OpenWRT firmware patch to enable rfxtrx support.

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This problem has already been reported… hoping a fix in the next firmware

If you can’t wait, it’s possible to use this code (the only work-around) :

luup.attr_set("name", <your long name>, <deviceId>)
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I know is has been answered. Just putting out another method for anyone still searching.

This also works:

ip_address:3480/data_request?id=device&action=rename&device=(DeviceID)&name=(Name)&room=(Room)