Group of input_sliders shows status unknown

I have a nested group of input sliders so that they show up on the card when the entity is shown. The primary device in this case is a printer and the card shows ink levels. The printer itself is in a tab group that contains various other system information. Below is what the card shows.


Notice that the top shows unknown. How can I change that, and can I change the bar graph to be something other than time or set it to where it shows when the printer was online and offline or something?

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Actually just figured out how to do it in AppDaemon. Is there a way to do it in HA natively though?

I think it’s ‘unknown’ because it’s showing the state of the group, rather than the state of the collection of sensors.

Unless there are switches or the like in the group, this is how it shows.

BTW, is this the SNMP project you were working on in another thread? This is very cool!! Showing the ink levels by sliders is inspired man. You should post a Share Your Projects on this - I’d love to see how you did it.

Once I get it a little more cleaned up I will. Right now, it only works for my two printers and you have to hard code the ODI’s in the code in a dictionary. My next task is to figure out more about loadable MIBS to see if I can make it a little more one size fits all. Also according to the Pysnmp guy, I’m doing it all wrong. :slight_smile: so I’ll have to look into what he’s telling me to do. But thanks

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I’d love to do this for my Epson Artisan. I just think this is such a cool usage!

Nice work, man!