can you name the time capsule in the gui

[trentonbrandenburgh]

can you name the time capsule in the gui app in a way that carries over to what is displayed on finder and so on
i ask because i have 2 time capsules and would prefer having separate names when there are both in the state to operate sense one has dying drive that i am replacing soon

[NotAFlightRisk]

Not from the app, no (going by v3.1.2). The Display Name box under Settings only relabels the device inside TimeCapsuleSMB - it's saved in the app's own device list and never sent to the Time Capsule.

What Finder shows is the Time Capsule's own name. Since v3.1.0 the SMB and Time Machine records are registered without a name, so the Time Capsule's own Bonjour responder puts its name on them (3.0 read the device's name itself and passed it on). There's no setting for it in the app, the CLI or .env - the old name keys just get stripped.

So give each base station a diffrent name in AirPort Utility. Theres nothing to redeploy afterwards, though if that restarts an older one without the boot hook it'll need activating again as usual.

[jamesyc]

Yeah, you can just change the device's name in Airport Utility.

The Airport Utility app works in older macOS versions before macOS 27, or just use the iPhone app.

[TeroSalminen]

I literally had this same issue an hour ago. Turned out that Airport Utility on macOS 27.0.1 could not do it, pressing "update" always gave an error. But the app in iOS 27.0.1 could so if you have an iPhone use that.