Incoming events not processed after renaming entity

[weitzelb]

Everything worked as expected until I renamed the entities. For readability and usability I wanted to re-name the entities to something more meaningful e.g. "binary_sensor.ds_2cd2387g2_lu######_1_fielddetection" to "binary_sensor.frontyard_1_fielddetection".

Now once an event is triggered from the camera it is not processed anymore. A log message is shown.

Source: custom_components/hikvision_next/notifications.py:47 Cannot process incoming event Entity not found binary_sensor.ds_2cd2387g2_lu######_1_fielddetection

Seemingly some internal references are still set to the original entity id.

I just glanced through the code and I was wondering if it was related to

hikvision_next/custom_components/hikvision_next/notifications.py

Line 146 in 1f6d40e

entity = hass.states.get(entity_id)

Most other instances you used the unique id but in this case you are re-building the original entity id based on the camera information.

[maciej-or]

Hi, as far changing entity ids is forbidden, explained here: #32 (comment)

[weitzelb]

Thanks for the hint. I didn't regard that issue earlier since the name stated a different topic.
I kept on reading your code and doing some tests. I then noticed that it's because of the traceability of the incoming event. To be neccesarilly maped to something known (which the unique id is not at that point).

I am not too faimilar with the development of Home Assistant integrations, honestly. First time I actually looked into it. So just a random thought: There is no "metadata" that could be written to the entity or device containing the original camera identifier? Upon a request arriving select the entity containing that specific "metadata"?