AppDaemon - listening for events on one entity but getting events for every entity

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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I’m new to AppDaemon, learning by reading the documentation and various tutorials. I’m trying to create an AppDaemon app that listens for events on a single entity, but I seem to be getting events for every entity. I’m sure it’ll be a beginners mistake, but I can’t spot what it is. Can anyone help? App and logs below.

I’m using AppDaemon v4.2.2 and HA 2022.11.4

The AppDaemon manual uses a syntax like this

hass.listen_state(hass_callback, "sensor.outsidesensor_temperature")

Reading the AppDaemon API documentation I have gotten this working, but I’m curious why I have to use this format rather than the above format that most others seem to use.

self.get_entity("sensor.outsidesensor_temperature").listen_state(self.print_entity)

I also noticed this warning in the logs WARNING AppDaemon: Unknown Plugin Configuration in get_plugin_api() - any suggestions there? I’ve included my appdaemon.yaml as well below.

Application

import hassapi as hass

class OutsideTemperatureSensorChange(hass.Hass):

    def initialize(self):
        self.adbase = self.get_ad_api()
        self.hass = self.get_plugin_api("hass")
        self.adbase.log("Initialising class OutsideTemperatureSensorChange")

        self.listen_state(self.print_entity,entity='sensor.outsidesensor_temperature')

    def print_entity(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
        try:
            self.log(f'Entity state change for {entity}')
        except Exception as e:
            print("An exception occurred")
            print(e)

Logs

2023-01-11 19:24:18.994253 INFO AppDaemon: Initializing app outsidesensor using class OutsideTemperatureSensorChange from module test-outside-temp-sensor-change
2023-01-11 19:24:18.998402 WARNING AppDaemon: Unknown Plugin Configuration in get_plugin_api()
2023-01-11 19:24:19.000666 INFO outsidesensor: Initialising class OutsideTemperatureSensorChange 

2023-01-11 19:24:33.844714 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.openweathermap_pressure
2023-01-11 19:24:33.860593 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.openweathermap_rain
2023-01-11 19:24:33.868016 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.openweathermap_uv_index
2023-01-11 19:24:33.875297 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.openweathermap_forecast_precipitation
2023-01-11 19:24:48.456860 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.lounge_temperature
2023-01-11 19:24:57.642086 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.fridgesensor_temperature
2023-01-11 19:24:57.676640 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.fridgesensor_battery
2023-01-11 19:24:57.701121 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.fridgesensor_humidity
2023-01-11 19:24:57.708786 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_humidity
2023-01-11 19:24:57.716009 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_temperature
2023-01-11 19:24:57.723185 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_battery
2023-01-11 19:24:57.730369 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.outsidesensor2_temperature
2023-01-11 19:24:57.737644 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.outsidesensor2_signal_strength
2023-01-11 19:25:57.798467 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.kitchensensor_battery
2023-01-11 19:26:48.959634 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.lounge_temperature
2023-01-11 19:26:58.062386 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.officesensor_battery_percentage
2023-01-11 19:26:58.101783 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.officesensor_signal_strength
2023-01-11 19:26:58.134126 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.officesensor_humidity
2023-01-11 19:26:58.156423 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_humidity
2023-01-11 19:26:58.175689 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_temperature
2023-01-11 19:26:58.188429 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.loungesensor_signal_strength
2023-01-11 19:26:58.198540 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.outsidesensor2_temperature
2023-01-11 19:26:58.208541 INFO outsidesensor: Entity state change for sensor.outsidesensor2_signal_strength

Config

logs:
  main_log:
    filename: /home/appdaemon/.appdaemon/log/appdaemon.log
  access_log:
    filename: /home/appdaemon/.appdaemon/log/access.log
  error_log:
    filename: /home/appdaemon/.appdaemon/log/error.log
  diag_log:
    filename: /home/appdaemon/.appdaemon/log/diag.log
    log_generations: 5
    log_size: 1024
    format: "{asctime} {levelname:<8} {appname:<10}: {message}"
appdaemon:
  time_zone: Pacific/Auckland
  latitude: -40.00000
  longitude: 111.1111
  elevation: 155
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
      ha_url: http://192.168.1.16:8123
      token: (removed)
http:
    url: http://192.168.1.16:5050
admin:
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Look at the docs. listen_state doesn’t use entity in its call.

https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/AD_API_REFERENCE.html#appdaemon.entity.Entity.listen_state

3

I’ve figured it out - I was using “entity=” as a parameter to the listen_state call.

This is what I was doing

self.listen_state(self.print_entity,entity='sensor.outsidesensor_temperature')

This is what I should’ve been doing

self.listen_state(self.print_entity,'sensor.outsidesensor_temperature')

@Troon I found the issue at pretty much the same time you replied by reading the docs - thanks :slight_smile:

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