Can you disable a sensor?

[AussieByrd (Ben)]

I have a similar use-case to this. I only get 20 API calls per day on SolCast solar estimates, so would like to limit the sensor to polling only during daylight hours kor less in reality) . Even with 1 hour intervals, I obviously run our each day, the the midnight restart is actually mid-morning.

[klogg]

I’m not sure if this will fit your case but I do this:

Updating sensor only in a little range of time of the day

I do this: I set the scan interval for the sensor to something very high e.g. scan_interval: 86400 Then I have these automations and scripts which you could adapt for your use. They just create a loop which updates the sensor. I also have a button in Lovelace that can request a manual update for those ‘urgent-I-must-have-the-most-current-information’ situations: automation: #=========================================================== #=== Set up timing of sensor calls for trains #=====…

[cjsimmons (Chris Simmons)]

it would be good to be able to disable a sensor, or have one not try to update if something is offline. In my case, I’d like to have transmission and sabnzbd not poll if my media pc is offline.