Built in sensor to custom sensor to energy dash

Configuration
1

I have an existing sensor in entities (sensor.myenergi_zappi_REDACTED_energy_used_today)
I want to get it as an additional device in the energy dash

I have this in my configuration.yaml file, but the new entity doesnt allow me to select it

The entity exists with the correct value under the entities and I can add it to a regular card

    - name: Zappi Daily consumption
      unit_of_measurement: 'W'
      device_class: energy
      state_class: total_increasing
      state: '{{ states("sensor.myenergi_zappi_REDACTED_energy_used_today") }}'

Any ideas why I cant select it under energy dash pls??
Or, is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

2

The unit of measurement for energy is kWh or Wh. Not W, that’s power.

3

thanks :slight_smile:
changed it, but made no difference, still cannot see that entity in the ‘add device’ dropdown :frowning:

4

Show your sensor config.

Did you restart Home Assistant?

5

below is full sensor config

its all default, added by config from the UI, so its empty
This is the entire configuration.yaml. I havent added anything to the !include files either


# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

template:
  sensor:
    - name: Zappi Daily consumption
      unit_of_measurement: 'Wh'
      device_class: energy
      state_class: total_increasing
      state: '{{ states("sensor.myenergi_zappi_REDACTED_energy_used_today") }}'

I did restart (and validated the yaml) from the Developer Toools → Yaml tab each time I made any changes