Pairing new devices or naming devices, does it get overwritten by config file on restart?

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I have been using Z2M for a while now, but, honestly, when i first set it up i just did it as quickly as possible without doing it the write way (IMO). The first time i paired devices i had a lot of trouble paring some of the Xiaomi buttons, as they never wanted to pair. It was not until i switched to a beta release that it work.

Anyways my question is that when using a GUI such as Zigbee2MQTTAssistant to add a new device, how does this get translated to the config file? I obviously think that the config file is not overwritten by Z2M when a new device is paired. However, how does one later add a friendly_name, for example? Also when you rename devices using the Zigbee2MQTTAssistant do these get overwritten by the config file the next time you restart Z2M?

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When you rename using Zigbee2MQTTAssistant the friendly name gets written in the configuration.yaml, just as you would do it manually.

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Oh ok so then using the rename it does edit the config file then. That’s good to know!