Help with new (default) templating in 2021.10

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I’ve searched a lot and tried whatever I could think of but still get the warning on a missing default for a time. It is super annoying that it doesn’t tell me which one as I have multiple, but since it is one warning, and only one of my templates is different from the others, I am guessing it is the last one… but why, I have no idea.

I reviewed the Jinja documentation but I have a lot more learning to do before I understand it…

These are my templates. Can someone kindly help me understand what I did wrong? I copied them from examples I found so and they appear to work but I have no idea whether they are correct.

I believe the “False, 0” part was what made most of the missing default warnings go away, but one is left… Do I have to add a default after “states.sensor.date.state” in the last one? Just guessing…

  - sensor:
      - name: "Scheduled Alarm Kids"
        icon: "hass:clock-outline"
        state: "{{ state_attr('input_datetime.scheduled_alarm_kids', 'timestamp') | timestamp_custom('%H:%M', False, 0) }}"


  - sensor:
      - name: "People Wake-Up Time"
        icon: "hass:clock-outline"
        state: "{{ state_attr('input_datetime.next_wake_up_alarm_people', 'timestamp') | timestamp_custom('%H:%M', False, 0) }}"


  - sensor:
      - name: "Adjusted Alarm Kids"
        icon: "hass:clock-end"
        state: "{{ state_attr('input_datetime.adjusted_alarm_kids', 'timestamp') | timestamp_custom('%H:%M', False, 0) }}"


  - sensor:
      - name: "Adjusted People Wake-Up Time"
        icon: "hass:clock-end"
        state: "{{ state_attr('input_datetime.adjusted_people_wake_up_time', 'timestamp') | timestamp_custom('%H:%M', False, 0) }}"

  - sensor:
      - name: "Expanded Date"
        state: "{{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.date.state) | timestamp_custom('%A - %d %B, %Y', False, 0) }}"
        icon: "mdi:calendar"

Edit: This is the warning:

2022-02-08 09:03:46 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template warning: 'timestamp_custom' got invalid input '00:00' when compiling template '{{ '00:00' | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}' but no default was specified. Currently 'timestamp_custom' will return '00:00', however this template will fail to render in Home Assistant core 2022.1

Edit2: These templates are part of a Node Red based automation where I went through hell trying to get node red to ignore the date part of the alarm. In some places I managed but in some others it still shows me a date too. It is quite possible that I am also not handling the value type (string/date/time/whatever) which may be what it is complaining about in the first part of the warning. IS that the case? If so I need to go hunt down that issue too.

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you’re looking at the wrong templates. The template in question is in your error. You should look in your config for this template:

EDIT: Also, that template will always fail render because timestamp_custom requires an int and you’re feeding it a string.

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@petro Thanks for the input. I did a search and found that it is likely due to Keymaster which I can’t modify (I can but I don’t want to break the Keymaster integration):

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As for the string vs int… I suspected that. Thanks for pointing it out! I’ll try to figure out what I did wrong.

Edit: @petro Were my other templates above correct? Or did your string vs int comment apply to all of them?

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I don’t understand how to make the last backup template correctly? Reading the documentation here and I don’t really understand what needs to be specified here

I tried to use these sensor options

  • {{ as_timestamp(state_attr("sensor.snapshot_backup", "last_snapshot")) | timestamp_custom("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M",format_string, default) }}'

  • {{ as_timestamp(strptime(state_attr("sensor.snapshot_backup","last_snapshot"), '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M' )) | timestamp_custom("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M") }}

  • {{ as_timestamp(state_attr('sensor.snapshot_backup', 'last_snapshot')) | timestamp_custom("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M", default) }}

I get these errors in the logs

Template variable warning: ‘default’ is undefined when rendering ‘{{ as_timestamp(state_attr(“sensor.snapshot_backup”, “last_snapshot”)) | timestamp_custom(“%d.%m.%Y %H:%M”, default) }}’

Template warning: ‘as_timestamp’ got invalid input ‘None’ when rendering template ‘{{ as_timestamp(strptime(state_attr(“sensor.snapshot_backup”,“last_snapshot”), ‘%d.%m.%Y %H:%M’ )) | timestamp_custom(“%d.%m.%Y %H:%M”) }}’ but no default was specified. Currently ‘as_timestamp’ will return ‘None’, however this template will fail to render in Home Assistant core 2022.1

Template warning: ‘strptime’ got invalid input ‘None’ when rendering template ‘{{ as_timestamp(strptime(state_attr(“sensor.snapshot_backup”,“last_snapshot”), ‘%d.%m.%Y %H:%M’ )) | timestamp_custom(“%d.%m.%Y %H:%M”) }}’ but no default was specified. Currently ‘strptime’ will return ‘None’, however this template will fail to render in Home Assistant core 2022.1

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Try


{{ as_timestamp(state_attr('sensor.snapshot_backup', 'last_snapshot'), now() )  |timestamp_custom('%d.%m.%Y, %R', true, now() ) }}


now()

is representing the timestamp default value.

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110

Thank you very much. Works. :smiley: :partying_face:

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Tell me, how can I do it correctly so that there is no warning below?

Template variable warning: ‘default’ is undefined when rendering '{{ is_state(“light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111”, “off”) and (now() - states.light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111.last_changed).seconds > 5 }}

Template warning: ‘strptime’ got invalid input ‘None’ when rendering template '{{ is_state(“light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111”, “off”) and (now() - states.light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111.last_changed).seconds > 5 }}

{{ is_state("light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111", "off") and (now()
- states.light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111.last_changed ).seconds > 300 | int(default=0) }}


{{ is_state("light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111", "off") and (now()
- states.light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111.last_changed ).seconds > 300 | default('', true) }}


{{ is_state("light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111", "off") and (now()
- states.light.yeelight_ceiling4_0x111111.last_changed ).seconds > 300 | default(0) }}
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Hi! I keep getting this error
ValueError: Template error: strptime got invalid input '2022-05-29 08:30:00' when rendering template
with this template:

    sensors:
      cgm_sensor_utloper_om:
        friendly_name: "G6 Sensor utløper om: "
        value_template: >
          {% set days =  (( as_timestamp(strptime(states.input_datetime.cgm_sensor_start.state, "%d-%m-%YT%H:%M:%S")) + 864000 - as_timestamp(now()) )/ (3600*24)) | round(0) | int %}
          {%- if days < 1 -%}
          I DAG!
          {%- else -%}
          {%- if days < 2 -%}
          I morgen...
          {%- endif -%}
          {%- if days > 1 -%}
          {{ days }} Dager
          {%- endif -%}
          {%- endif -%}
        icon_template: >
          mdi:leak-off

Can someone help with what i need to change?

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You need to change this: %d-%m-%YT%H:%M:%S

The sensor’s value is 2022-05-29 08:30:00 which is year-month-day hours:minutes: seconds.

However the strptime pattern you are using is this: %d-%m-%YT%H:%M:%S which is for converting a datetime in a very different format. You’ll need to modify it.

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Yes. As Taras says. Change “%d-%m-%YT%H:%M:%S” to “%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”

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