Hello all, I’m experiencing something weird. Recently, I hacked an IKEA PM2.5 sensor by adding an ESP8266 and added it to HA via ESPHome. So far so good. It works as expected. Now, I tried to add a 24h average sensor for it. I installed Average Sensor from HACS and added the sensor to my HA conf…

Anyone? After running it for a while I see it was not a fluke. It consistently doesn’t seem to average correctly. Sensor value is a stable 6 for hours. And average stays stable (even rising slightly) @ 70… Could it have something to do with the fact that HA does not register new sensor values if t…

You could try asking the integration developer here: [image] Average Sensor Custom Integrations UPD: Average Temperature sensor is now deprecated. Use Average sensor instead: https://github.com/Limych/ha-average This sensor allows you to calculate the average temperatur…

I think the problem is that when the value doesn’t change compared to the previous value, HA does not register it. And so, the average sensor also doesn’t register it. So when the sensor value is stable @ 10ug/m3 for a couple hours, the average sensor only gets 1 value. So 5 hours of 10ug/m3 is bei…

Why are you using a custom integration to do this when statistics integration is built in and arguably better? [image] Statistics Instructions on how to integrate statistical sensors into Home Assistant.

[image] petro: and arguably better Unless something has changed recently, I disagree. The core integration does not take into account the time the state exists, just the number of state changes. The third party one does take time into account. e.g. say you had a sensor that was 1.0 all day …

haha, that’s why I said arguably

it’s the cover your ass phrase :slight_smile:

[image] tom_l: Unless something has changed recently, I disagree. Also, statistics was completely reworked. It may do what you want now. Check out the new state_characteristics

[image] petro: Also, statistics was completely reworked. Yeah I’m aware of that, hence my arse covering phrase :slight_smile: [image] tom_l: Unless something has changed recently

I haven’t look at them, however there’s 3 average methods now. I would assume state_characteristic: average_step is what OP would want to use. I think average_timeless was the original method.

24h Average sensor incorrect?

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tom_l December 20, 2021, 9:37pm 3

You could try asking the integration developer here: