HomeyDuino names of identical capabilities

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I recently got a smart-meter in my house, which I of course had to connect to Homey as well. Using an ESP8266 that gets it’s power-supply from the P1 port itself I wrote a small program based on this repo: GitHub - jantenhove/P1-Meter-ESP8266: Software for the ESP8266 that sends P1 smart meter data to Domoticz (with CRC checking)
Instead of Domoticz I based my code on the HomeyDuino library which works beautifully!
One problem however, in my code I add the following capabilities:

void setup() {
Homey.begin(“P1 Smart Meter”);
Homey.setClass(“other”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_power.consumed”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_power.produced”);
Homey.addCapability(“meter_power.producedPeak”);
Homey.addCapability(“meter_power.producedOffPeak”);
Homey.addCapability(“meter_power.peak”);
Homey.addCapability(“meter_power.offPeak”);

Homey.addCapability(“measure_voltage.L1”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_current.L1”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_voltage.L2”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_current.L2”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_voltage.L3”);
Homey.addCapability(“measure_current.L3”);

Homey.addCapability(“meter_gas”);

So I have multiple of the same capabilities. The homey app does show them all, but without any different names:

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In this screenshot, my “measure_power.consumed” is 330W and “measure_power.produced” is 0W. But there is now way to tell which is what in the app? They both are named “ENERGIE”.
Same for the meter_power, measure_voltage and measure_current, they all show up, probably in the order created, but without a distinguishable name. Is there any way to fix this from the arduino side?

EDIT:
For those interested, I decided to share my code here:

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I don’t think it’s possible to override the default “title” of capabilities :frowning:

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you can change a (default) capabilities title with
capabilitiesOptions
example Snippet

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Yes, that’s an option if you’re writing an app, but HomeyDuino is an existing app that doesn’t seem to provide a title override feature for capabilities that are defined by a device.

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Hmm too bad it’s not an option (yet). @Caseda the feature you’re mentioning is exactly what I’m looking for, but unfortunately it’s not supported by HomeyDuino at the moment as @robertklep points out.
I briefly looked through the homeyduino library and the app related to it and indeed there doesn’t seem to be an option or a quick around for this at the moment…