App Configuration panel ignores user defined language

Home Assistant Android version: 2.4.1.-full

Android version: 8.0.0

Phone model: SM-G930F

Home Assistant version: Latest dev (0.116.0)

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):

Description of problem: The user logged into the app has its language set to English, which is generally adhered to in the app, with the exception of the “App Configuration” panel where everything is still in German (language of the mobile phone itself).

Possibly related: The exposed sensors from the phone also use a German name in HA.

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[ekt-]

My opinion is that

• the sensor name should respect the phone system language
• the entity id should NOT be translated, and (at least by default) always named in english

The rational behind it is that the former is something that belong to the user experience, the UI. The latter is what will be used by scripts; it is part of the ‘hassio programming language’ and that would be really awkward to see it in spanish or italian.

If you are not happy with the above arbitrary decision, I think that it should be possible to at least allow the user to specify how he wants the sensors to be named. I think the proper time would be when the user logs on in the mobile app:

At this stage the integration has not yet been created, so it should be a proper time to ask.

[skandalfo]

In my case it’s quite annoying that entity ids for sensors in the mobile app get translated to Spanish (what we got in our phones), while everything else from integrations get English entity ids.

To my best knowledge non-mobile-app integrations use English entity ids for sensors, and even English friendly names for them. If they need to be translated at all, the entity ids should use a consistent language to the one used by the HA install, rather than being device-dependent.