Welcome to some of the challenges of integrations and the simple act of adding a name. A few thoughts:
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Sense maintains dual names for smartplug devices because you may want different names for the plug in the Kasa app and in Sense land. I haven’t played with it recently, but the Sense device may actually stay connected even if you change the Kasa name since there is an underlying Kasa Mac address that still links the two.
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You have to think about Sense devices carefully - once a history gets created for a device, you can’t glibly switch names or assignments. Part of the issue is that even after you delete a device its history lives on:
Behind the Scenes: Deleting a Device - Sense Blog
So when the time comes to reallocate the smartplug, you have to do more work than would seem necessary.
Kasa Smartplug Stat Reset - #12 by RyanAtSense -
I recommend that if you want to move a smartplug around, to look at the histories of lots of devices, you name it Traveller and don’t give it a dedicated device name or association… That way, you won’t have to spend time doing resets.