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cant rename devices
when i click on any devices and edit it, i change the name and hit apply. when it refreshes the screen, the object still stays the same as what it was before. sometimes if i goto a different tab an...
- I figured it out. Instead of renaming the device completely, I just added to the name that it currently was and then I hit apply and then I went back and edited the name again and deleted the crap that I didn't want and it worked flawlessly every time for all devices.
---Case850 said "As I said before the correct and permanent way to change the name of a device is to do it on the device."---
And the router witl almost immediately reconized it if name change is done this way.
Despite having names of "Christopher's Echo", "Christopher's Second Echo", "Echo Dot", and "Christopher's Fire TV Stick", the broadcast IDs were all different variations of amazonXXXX. Perhaps I'm just missing another spot where I can rename it on the device, but I also can't figure out how to rename my older Vizio TV. No big deal really, just annoying.