Energy template - battery input 2 values

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I have been trying to find a solution to combine 2 values in a template sensor and still make the outcome available to my energy dashboard.

Situation is that I have a Growatt installation that recently was expanded with batteries. I purchased the 10kWh offering but now I get 2 sensors for battery_energy_in in my Home Assistant application amd only 1 for battery_energy_out and when I use both in the energy dashboard, it requires me to use the out value twice… resulting in an incorrect (double value) there.

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See the 12 kWh value vs the actual 6.3 kWh value that was loaded into my batteries.

I am trying to create a template now with this but it will not become visible to add to teh energy dashboard and all I read about adding a state_class: to the sensor is no longer supported.

Is there an alternative way?

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      electricity_batteryinject_total:
        friendly_name: 'Batterij input totaal'
        entity_id:
          - sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_1
          - sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_2
        value_template: "{{ (states('sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_1')|float + states('sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_2')|float)| abs | round(2) }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
        device_class: energy
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If you use the new way of defining a Template Sensor it allows you to specify state_class.

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Electricity Batteryinject Total"
        unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
        device_class: energy
        state_class: total
        state: >
          {{ (states('sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_1') | float(0) + 
              states('sensor.thuis_batterij_lifetime_total_energy_input_2') | float(0)) 
              | abs | round(2, default=0) }}
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Thank you Taras, fantastic! That did the trick… I am going to update all my template sensors now.

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You’re welcome!

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