Built in sensor to custom sensor to energy dash

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!

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

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

Show your sensor config.

Did you restart Home Assistant?

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