Use entity_id's instead of friendly names #616
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I'm not sure which version made the change since I left it outdated for a while, but at some point entity_ids were changed to displaying as friendly names like below:


Imo, friendly names are for the UI and end users (where they're supplemented by icons and other things around them). Backend automation tools like this should maintain explicit entity_ids to avoid confusion between entities with similar names. Also, since there are other nodes where the use of templates is allowed, it leads to inconsistent formatting between nodes where some are as above, and some are as below image. Inconsistency within Node-Red is already a huge problem given that each palette author can do things however they want; nodes within the same palette should be as consistent as possible with each other.

If you're committed to offering this for the less experienced users, could we at least get some kind of way to choose if we'd like it with friendly names or entity_ids?
Finally, this gigantic select box causes a visual bug as well:

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