Check Entity/sensor unavailability or status

[BjornS (Bjorn Smeets)]

Hi!
I’m currently looking for something to expand my system tab.
I did some research to see whether a sensor or entity is available or not. (To create a small list to see which sensor is offline)

Is there any card to use for this? And does anybody got recommendations?
I saw it was possible just to use monstercard and filter for ‘unavailable’, but is there something else?

[123 (Taras)]

@BjornS

but is there something else?

There’s this one:

Unavailable / Unknown Entity Monitoring - Template Sensor

This template sensor will iterate the states object and return a count and list of entities that have a state of unknown, unavailable. This is a new version that incorporates a couple of new features such as ignoring entities for a time period and filtering entities based on a partial string match in addition to the entities declared in the ignored_entities group. The package has been moved to it’s own repository with updated documentation. Update 2023-9-22: Template and documentation have be…

[BjornS (Bjorn Smeets)]

Looks promising! Will check it out tomorrow.
Thanks for the fast response!

[finity]

@BjornS

use monstercard

Wow, where did you find a reference to that?

That card hasn’t been around for a LONG time. Maybe years.

it was replaced by the auto-entities card.

[BjornS (Bjorn Smeets)]

Hahaha, I was just reading in some forums. I haven’t looked if it still existed

[BjornS (Bjorn Smeets)]

@123 I installed the script for unavailability detection. Works great! Thanks for the help and tip!