Adding more information to a list for speaking it

[calisro (Rob)]

@ElMaquinista

looks like there is no more attribute than the friendly_name:

The on and off is the ‘state’ of the entity. The ‘how many minutes ago’ is the last_changed fields.

You should look here for that info:

Templating

for example:

{{ as_timestamp(states.binary_sensor.garage_door.last_changed) }}

btw, something like this is going to get you where you need to go to determine how long the window was open…

Template to show days days / hours passed since switch on?

Thanks, not sure whats wrong here, tried to use the code from link Maybe because its a switch and not a sensor ? - platform: time_date display_options: - 'time' - platform: template sensors: greenhouse_last_connected: value_template: >- {% set value = states('switch.greenhouse') %} {% set last_updated = as_timestamp(strptime(value, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")) %} {% set seconds = now().timestamp()-last_updated %} {% set hours = …