Calculate delta of the last 5 minutes for a sensor

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I’d like to calculate the odo diff of my vehicle for the last 5 minutes.
For this I am using the statistics platform.

This is the source sensor for a test trip with a 5 minute window marked in orange:

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in the orange section odo diff is about 7km

This is the result of the statistics sensor - it only reports 1:

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This is the yaml for the sensor. There must be something wrong with it.

- platform: statistics
  name: "Strecke diff 5min"
  entity_id: sensor.vehicle_odo
  state_characteristic: change
  max_age:
    minutes: 5
  sampling_size: 2
  precision: 1
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You are going to have more than 2 samples in 5 minutes. Make the sample size sufficiently large to account for the maximum number of samples you get in 5 minutes. There is a buffer fill ratio attribute of the sensor you can check. You want this to be close to 1 (100%) but never actually reaching 1.

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So I’d have to set sampling_size to 15, when I assume the car is capable of going 180km/h?
That would be 180 / 60 * 5 = 15. Unfortunately I don’t get fractions of kilometers reported.

edit: is there another way to calculate such delta values?

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