ESPresense - Changing Displayed Location Names

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Hello,

I am typing to edit the location display names showing in ESPresense.

Currently, if I am detected in my Master Bedroom, it displays my location as “master_bedroom”. I would like to edit this to display “Master Bedroom”.

I tried adding the following Platform Template in my Sensors YAML file

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      leon_iphone_ble:
        value_template: >-
         {% if is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'entryway') %}
           Entryway
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'kitchen') %}
           Kitchen
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'lLiving_room') %}
           Living Room
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'master_bedroom') %}
           Master Bedroom
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'guest_bedroom') %}
           Guest Bedroom
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'office') %}
           Office
         {% elif is_state('sensor.leon_iphone_ble', 'not_home') %}
           Not Home
         {% else %}
           Unknown
         {% endif %}`

Something is not right with the YAML Developers Tools is not showing errors though.

When installed, it only shows my location as “Unknown”, the only line of code working.

When I remove the YAML, my location goes back to displaying “master_bedroom” or “guest_bedroom”.

I think I’m very close, but I am not seeing my mistake.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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add this to your template in developer tools:

{{ states('sensor.leon_iphone_ble'} }}

and observe why no is_state is matching.

BTW you have a backtick at the end of your endif.

3

Source sensor name looks identical with target one.

You want to create a sensor named leon_iphone_ble by sensor leon_iphone_ble, or I am reading wrong?

4

Developer Tool shows correct location, but the YAML is still deactivated. I’ll have to turn it back on and try again

The ‘ was a typo in my post only.

5

“Source sensor name looks identical with target one.

You want to create a sensor named leon_iphone_ble by sensor leon_iphone_ble, or I am reading wrong?“

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That was how the sample YAML was written.

Should it be different?

I’m maybe a 2 or 3 out of 10 in learning and understanding YAML.

6

They have to be different, can you share the link?

Or just change the initial template sensor name, it should work

7

This is where I found the YAML

https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/Q2K1jBBa8p

Oh, I see. It is different.

8

Yes! That did it. Yay :grinning:

Thank you both for helping.

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