Help on template sensors and unavailable after restart

[khvej8]

Hi, need a little help on templates.

I have a template I only update daily, at midnight. I then use this number in other calculations. It works as expected, however I have the problem that after a restart the sensor is shown as “unavailable” until next midnight.

Here is the template sensor

- trigger:  ## Daily at midnight
  - platform: time
    at: 
      - "00:00:01"
  sensor:
  - name: "Utility El usage Day increasingtotal temp-number"
    state: >
      {{ states('sensor.develco_zhemi101_f21a021b_smartenergy_metering_summation_delivered') }}

I have tried to find a way to update a helper from the sensor, as this will keep the state after a reboot, however can not figure out how

I have tried with a template that also update at restart. It works, however the number will be wrong, as it is not from midnight (will show the number from restart time)

I have tried using a utility sensor, and have the number comming form “laststate”. This works, however takes up a lot of space in the DB, for only this one small number (utility sensor will update every time the original entity updates, which is a lot)

Ideas? I can not figure out how to do this in a simple way

Easiest solution would be a automation updating a “helper”. However I can not figure out how.

[khvej8]

Solved: The solution is like this. With great instiration from this discussion. Not sure why I did not finde that right away.

Save attribute in a input number

Hi, Im trying to create an automation that saves the current temperature to an input_number. Then sets the temperature to +1 degrees and after 1 hour I want the temperature to be set back to the value that has been saved in the input_number. I tried it first in Node red but that was way to difficuld. Thanks to some blueprints on this forum I created a service that should be the missing piece of my puzzle. Only it doesnt work. What is going wrong in this service? service: input_number.set_va…

so the solution looks like this,

alias: AA Test float
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: /1
condition: []
action:
  - service: input_number.set_value
    target:
      entity_id: input_number.aa_test_float
    data:
      value: >
        {{
        states('sensor.develco_zhemi101_f21a021b_smartenergy_metering_summation_delivered')
        }}
mode: single

[123 (Taras)]

@khvej8

I have a template I only update daily, at midnight

Your proposed solution doesn’t work the same way as your original Trigger-based Template Sensor.

• The Template Sensor updates once a day (at one minute past midnight).
• The automation uses a Time Pattern Trigger that updates every minute (1440 times a day).

If you want it to work the same way, replace the Time Pattern Trigger with a Time Trigger identical to the one you used in the Trigger-based Template Sensor.

[khvej8]

Hi Taras,

Im aware, it was just my test automation, set for 1 minute to see the effect.

I should have mentioned to ensure others would not use time on making a reply. I will remenber next time.

Thanks for your input, and all the other input from you. It was your reply in the other thread that gave me the insight to solve this one.