Hi, please could you tell me how to create a status counter when an entity is in the “on” state and that is not cut by the recorder? I haven’t found a solution yet.
Are you looking for how many times it has been on or how long it has been on?
How long has it been on
Ah! That topic seems to be a complicated one for HA!
I’ve just spent the last 6 hours trying to wrap my head around a simple elapsed timer in HA for my car charger. It doesn’t exist.
I found a Stopwatch with start/stop/resume, lap and reset solution which uses 4 input_booleans + 2 template triggers + 3 automations, 1 of which runs every second. I did not like that approach either…too much work plus I do not like the idea of an automation firing once every second. There is this solution using input_datetime helpers but you need automation(s) to update the datetime helpers. I moved from HomeSeer over a year ago and it has had timers for many, MANY years where you can create timers which can count UPWARDS unlike HA timers which only count DOWN from a DURATION.
So I had a look over in Node-RED and started searching there. Also somewhat void but I did mange to find a node that I have made work: the interval-length node…
And this is the sensor it created in HA:
If you’re not into Node-RED then datetime_helpers + templates + automations seems to be the only solution.
Hope that helps!
Unfortunately you didn’t help me much, I really don’t know how to create this system. Thank you anyway
Ok. Did you look at Simple stopwatch?&/or Stopwatch with start/stop/resume, lap and reset?
You need two input_datetime helpers, one to store the start time and one for the stop time. Then an automation that fires when the device turns on which updates the start time helper and another automation that fires when the device turns off which updates the stop time. I combined the two automations into one with two triggers and a choose section. Last item is a template sensor whose state is ( end_time minus start_time ) if the timer is stopped, or ( now() - start_time ) if the timer is running. I threw the following together this evening. In the code below I’m using an input_boolean that I created to trigger & test it. Just replace the input_boolean with the entity_id of the switch you want to track.
templates:
- sensor:
- name: 32A Charging Timer
unique_id: 32a_charging_timer
state: >
{% if is_state("input_boolean.32a_charging_on_off", "on") %}
{{ as_timestamp(now()) - state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_start", "timestamp") }}
{% else %}
{{ state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_end","timestamp") - state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_start","timestamp") }}
{% endif %}
device_class: duration
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: s
Automation:
alias: 32A Charging Timer
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.32a_charging_on_off
id: Start
to: "on"
- platform: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.32a_charging_on_off
id: End
to: "off"
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Start
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: "{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}"
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.32a_charging_start
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: End
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: "{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}"
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.32a_charging_end
mode: single
3 helpers:
And my input_boolean:
HA only updates the templated sensor once every minute but when stopped it’s to the second.
The result:
I posted a solution a year ago (see above). Use a History Stats sensor and the Utility integration.
I’ve used the combination for well over a year and have daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly stats for how long the furnace has been heating and the AC has been cooling.
I believe your system lasts 1 year at most I would like a life timer
Trying it, unfortunately, the sensor is not working every time the entity changes state from “INATTIVA” to “IN FUNZIONE” it resets and starts again with zero value.
Sensor
- name: "Contatore Riscaldamento Acceso"
unique_id: "contatore_riscaldamento_acceso"
state: >
{% if is_state("sensor.stato_riscaldamento", "IN FUNZIONE") %}
{{ as_timestamp(now()) - state_attr("input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_start", "timestamp") }}
{% else %}
{{ state_attr("input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_stop","timestamp") - state_attr("input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_start","timestamp") | round(0) }}
{% endif %}
device_class: duration
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: s
Automation
- id: '1670081715498'
alias: Contatore Riscaldamento Acceso
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.stato_riscaldamento
id: Start
to: IN FUNZIONE
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.stato_riscaldamento
id: Stop
to: INATTIVA
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Start
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: '{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}'
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_start
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Stop
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: '{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}'
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_stop
mode: single
I started recording long-term statistics for a fan in October 2021. Here’s its yearly Utility Meter sensor data. You can see it has data for 2022 and 2021.
Ok but as you can see from the graph in January 2022 it restarted from 0
That’s simply due to how I chose to graph the data.
Here’s the cumulative value.
The point is that you claimed it “lasts 1 year at most” but it clearly records more than a year’s worth of data and you can choose how to display it.
Is this correct?
start: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0) }}"
end: "{{ now() }}"
I would like to start at 00:00 and finish at 23:59
How did you configure this daily History Stats sensor?
Thanks
Thanks, you are very kind!
I think I did everything right…
One last doubt, graphically after a year, does this Utility Meter Yearly sensor start from scratch or does it show the sum with the previous year?
If you set the sensor’s cycle to yearly it will display the total of the current year’s data (even though data is recorded for all years and can be graphed as I demonstrated in my previous posts).
According to the documentation, cycle is optional so you can try creating a Utility Meter sensor without the cycle option and, in theory, it should simply display a running total indefinitely. I say “in theory” because I have never tried it (because I don’t need to display a running total that spans multiple years).
The cycle option is just a way to tell the sensor the time span it should use to calculate its result. It gets the total of every day from the History Stats sensor and uses that to compute a total for day/week/month/year based on what’s specified for cycle.
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With | timestamp_custom("%H:%M:%S", 0)
- name: 32A Charging Timer
unique_id: 32a_charging_timer
state: '{{ iif(is_state("input_boolean.32a_charging_on_off","on"), as_timestamp(now())-state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_start","timestamp"), state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_end","timestamp")-state_attr("input_datetime.32a_charging_start","timestamp")) }}'
device_class: duration
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: s
attributes:
formatted_time: '{{ states("sensor.32a_charging_timer")|float(0) | timestamp_custom("%H:%M:%S", 0) | regex_replace(find="^[0:]*",replace="") }}'
Thanks, unfortunately I didn’t use your method because it gave me some problems as I wrote before 
For your requirement (if you have not solved it already), I would create another helper:
input_number.contatore_riscaldamento_accumulated. Then in the automation, change:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Stop
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: '{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}'
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_stop
to:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Stop
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
data:
timestamp: '{{ as_timestamp(now()) }}'
target:
entity_id: input_datetime.contatore_riscaldamento_stop
- service: input_number.set_value
data: '{{ states("input_number.contatore_riscaldamento_accumulated") + states("sensor.contatore_riscaldamento_acceso") }}'
target:
entity_id: input_number.contatore_riscaldamento_accumulated
Or something like that…