Entity names starting with digits

[fishter]

One of my integrations (Meteo France), generates Entity names which begin with numbers. For instance: sensor.78_weather_alert.

This seems to cause problems with templating.

I have solved this problem by changing the entity ID to sensor.weather_alert_78. There are helpful instructions for this here: Customizing entities - Home Assistant

Hopefully this will help someone in the future who happens to have an entity name starting with digits.

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[Troon]

Whilst it is easier to avoid the problem, you can reference such entities in templates:

{{ states['sensor.78_weather'].state }}

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@fishter

cause problems with templating

Entity_id that begins with a number