Can not change helper settings (timer duration, counter min/max value, etc) after renaming helper entity id

[rrooggiieerr]

The problem

After changing a helper entity id changing any of the helper settings like timer duration, counter min/max value etc, is not taken into account. Only after a restart of HA the new settings are respected.

I tested this for the Timer, Counter and Number helper.

Create a test timer:

Change the timer entity id:

Change the timer duration:

Timer duration is still the old value, also when you start the time.

Similar behaviour for Counter and Input Number helper.

After a restart of HA everything works as expected.

If you change the entity name and change the settings together it still works. If you first change the entity id and then the settings it doesn't work.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.12.5

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Any helper integration

Link to integration documentation on our website

No response

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

2025-01-04 21:25:15.062 WARNING (Recorder) [homeassistant.components.recorder.entity_registry] Cannot migrate history for entity_id `timer.test` to `timer.test_renamed` because the new entity_id is already in use

Additional information

Might be related to #115747

[rrooggiieerr]

Looks like CollectionEntity.async_update_config is not called after an entity id is renamed

This function is called on every config change, however after renaming the entity id change_set.item_id still has the old entity id which results in entity being None and async_update_config not being called

core/homeassistant/helpers/collection.py

Lines 492 to 498 in a2c2d37

	async def _update_entity(self, change_set: CollectionChange) -> None:
	if entity := self.entities.get(change_set.item_id):
	if change_set.item_hash:
	self.ent_reg.async_update_entity_options(
	entity.entity_id, "collection", {"hash": change_set.item_hash}
	)
	await entity.async_update_config(change_set.item)

[Mayhem-SWE]

Editing helpers in the GUI has been flaky for as long as I've been using HASS. One often has to do a complete browser refresh and/or server restart for names, icons, etc. to be displayed correctly after changing them.

[rrooggiieerr]

@Mayhem-SWE This issue appears to be not GUI related but really embedded in HA Core. I'm still working on debugging the issue