Creating a template line sensor with IF THEN ELSE

Configuration
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Could someone help me code this template sensor?

  - platform: template
    sensors:
solar_consumption:
if sensor.solaredge_current_power=0 then solar_consumption=0
else
if sensor.solaredge_current_power>sensor.energy_usage then
solar_consumption=sensor.energy_usage
else
solar_consumption=sensor.solaredge_current_power
end if
end if

I tried but nothing worked.
Thanks

Oh also how would I code this (with a subtraction):

if sensor.solaredge_current_power>sensor.energy_usage then
grid_feed_in=sensor.solaredge_current_power - sensor.energy_usage
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- platform: template
    sensors:
      solar_consumption:
        value_template: >
          {% if states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float == 0 %}
            0
          {% elif states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float > states('sensor.energy_usage') | float %}
            {{ states('sensor.energy_usage') }}
          {% else %}
            {{ states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') }}
          {% endif %}
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3

@finity You made me smile.
Thanks man.

“elif” is not a typo right? :wink:

4

:slightly_smiling_face:

nope.

that’s the way it’s written for another “if” in the chain.

it’s just a contraction of “else if”.

5

And one last question… how do you do the subtraction in the second part of my question? :grimacing:

6

oops, forgot about that part.

{% if states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float > states('sensor.energy_usage') | float %}
  {{ states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') |float - states('sensor.energy_usage') }}
{% endif %}
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You can use variables to streamline the template (and supply the float filter with a default value because it will become mandatory in December’s release):

        value_template: >
          {% set scp = states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float(0) %}
          {% set eu = states('sensor.energy_usage') | float(0) %}
          {{ 0 if scp == 0 else eu if scp > eu else scp }}
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8

Thanks.

Do I need a float after - states(‘sensor.energy_usage’) | float }}

9

OOPS again.

yes

10

Thanks this does look neater in a strange way… so the last line starts with a 0 to say if scp=0 then value is 0 else move on… right?

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Less need for multiple float filters if you use variables.

{% set scp = states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float(0) %}
{% set eu = states('sensor.energy_usage') | float(0) %}
{% if scp > eu %}
  {{ scp - eu }}
{% endif %}
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And so in this new more modern way, how do I do the subtraction part?

0 if scp==0 else scp-eu if…

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It’s an inline if statement. If you don’t use variables, it can become a chore to read an inline-if because it becomes very long.

Yes, just use scp - eu if that’s what you need.

        value_template: >
          {% set scp = states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float(0) %}
          {% set eu = states('sensor.energy_usage') | float(0) %}
          {{ 0 if scp == 0 else scp - eu if scp > eu else scp }}

Whichever style you prefer to use, don’t overlook to supply the float filter with a default value (I used zero in the example).

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14

So would this

    - platform: template
    sensors:
      grid_feed_in:
        friendly_name: Grid Feed
        unit_of_measurement: 'W'
        value_template: >
          {% if states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float == 0 %}
            0
          {% elif states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float > states('sensor.energy_usage') | float %}
            {{ states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') |float - states('sensor.energy_usage') | float}}
          {% else %}
            0
          {% endif %}

Be the same as this:

    - platform: template
    sensors:
      grid_feed_in:
        friendly_name: Grid Feed
        unit_of_measurement: 'W'
        value_template: >
          {% set scp = states('sensor.solaredge_current_power') | float(0) %}
          {% set eu = states('sensor.energy_usage') | float(0) %}
          {{ 0 if scp == 0 else scp-eu if scp > eu else 0 }}
15

K so the above is correct appart from the spaces scp - eu

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I thought it would only be “mandatory” if there were errors generated by templates that couldn’t be rendered properly. Otherwise not.

??

17

The addition of spaces isn’t critical; the Jinja2 interpreter understands how to interpret it correctly with or without the spaces.

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Depends on how you want to interpret ‘mandatory’. If you omit the default and the filter encounters a situation where it needed it, the entire template fails with an error.

Currently, it only gives you a warning and the filter supplies whatever default value it traditionally provided (which can mask some terrible nonsense and I say that based on having seen some terrible nonsense posted in this forum).

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OK, that’s what I thought.

from your statement I thought I missed something else.

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If you thought Check Configuration would flag missing default values, I didn’t get the impression that will happen (but we’ll know for sure in a month or so).