Multiple devices with the same name

[SvnKswttr]

Hi folks!
I have a Wemos D1 mini with the ESPEasy up and running publishing data from different sensors to MQTT.
For the ease of comparing the data I set the 3 devices (DS18B20, BME280 and BMP180) with the same name "SensorData" but changes the "Value names" to be unique.
During the setup I got an error that the device name is not unique;

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The strange thing is that it was saved anyway to the system and it's working great:

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Mosquitto shows the data on the console well:

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Is this a "bug" or feature?
Sven

[grovkillen]

That is a bug, and it's reported (and fixed I thought). What version are you on?

What happens is that you have the same name on some of the other tasks but it's not visible in the GUI only in the settings registry. So the OS looks at the registry and see that it's the same name as another task but it (did, should do now) doesn't look and see if the task is an active task. If it's not then it shouldn't warn like it did.

[SvnKswttr]

Version from today: ESP_Easy_mega-20190226_normal_ESP8266_4M.bin