I'm moving my old hub to the detached garage now and already have hub mesh working but have a couple questions / best practices.
#1 Is there any way to rename linked devices so they don't show up as Deviceblahblah on Whateverhubname. That makes labels too long and hard to read on the dashboards. [EDIT] Looks like changing the Device Label on the linked hub changes the name on dashboards etc.
#2 I imagine it's best to keep automations on the hub that the device actually lives on, but is there any reason (besides a slight delay) not to use them in automations on the other hub?
Gotcha. I wasn't sure if it would produce extra load or anything. I figure once I get the physical devices moved, I'll move the pertaining rules over to the garage hub too.
My plan is to keep my dashboards as is on the main hub though for simplicity.
I have the same situation, I have a hub in my detached shop, which is about 100 yards behind my house. I have a wifi link out to the shop. I could keep the rules on my home hub, but if the link goes down then I lose access to my rules. So I keep rules for that hub on that hub.
I was wondering the same thing. It turns out the new linked device doesn't have a label, so you can use the label field to provide a shorter name, i.e., label the "Office Light Switch On The Other Hub" "Office Light Switch," and that's how it will be displayed everywhere on the linked hub.
Set the "Device Label" field on the device detail page, as mentioned above. Hub Mesh sets "Device Name"; "Device Label" is yours and will be used as the display name if present (otherwise it uses "Device Name").
ok so the device name is light bulb the device label is kitchen light.it is on hub 2. on hub 1 it shows as kitchen light on hub 2. how do i remove the hub 2 part of the name on hub 1. the solution you mentioned does not work for what i want to do.
Change the device label on the receiving hub to be the same as on the sending hub, but put a lock emoji after it, so you know at a glance it a shared device to the hub and not a device that’s actually on the hub. In my case all my devices are on one hub, the rules and automations on another.
