Change entity state through automation?

[TheHoff (Fredrik Hofgren)]

Hi all
I’ll get straight to the point. I have a Z-wave sensor, a rain gauge, that isn’t returning to zero after the rain has stopped, or ever for that matter. Only way I see it is to manually set the entity state using the Developer Tools. I have a separate thread going for this Popp Z-rain not returning to zero
My idea of mitigating the problem is by setting up an automation that would trigger if the gauge hasn’t changed to a while. That part is easily researched but not the action part. I cannot figure out how to set the state.
Any input would be appreciated.

Regards
Fredrik

[123 (Taras)]

Normally there’s no need to set a sensor’s state so there’s no native service to do it. However, as you’ve discovered, there are unique situations where it is required.

I suggest you consider using the python_script created by rodpayne:

How to manually set state/value of sensor?

For what it’s worth, I have been hunting for a solution to this problem and I finally decided to make a small script: # python_scripts/set_state.py #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Set the state or other attributes for the entity specified in the Automation Action #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- inputEntity = data.get('entity_id') inputStateObject = hass.st…

pnbruckner has a similar python_script posted here:

Trying to set state of button to off

Here is a very basic script that will set the state of an entity. The parameters are entity_id and state. entity_id = data.get('entity_id') if not entity_id: logger.error('No entity_id provided') state = data.get('state') if not state: logger.error('No state provided') hass.states.set(entity_id, state) Copy that code into a file in your <config>/python_scripts folder, where <config> is your HA configuration folder. The name of the file should have a .py extension. The name of the file …