History graph for non-default attribute

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Hey,

So I’m finally jumping in on the lovelace bandwagon after just using the default setup for the last few years. The only thing I’m having troubles with so far, is that I have a power switch that also reports consumption; I want to have a graph of the power consumption for this switch, but if I use history_graph, I seem to only be able to graph the on/off state.

Reading the docs doesn’t seem to have helped, so is there a way to generate a graph for an attribute of an entity, and not just the default “on/off” that it shows?

Thanks!

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Create a template sensor for the attribute and graph that.

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Ah, that will work. A bit hacky, but it’ll work.

Thanks!

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It’s the only way I know of.

Having the attribute broken out as a sensor is usually handy for automations without having to resort to templates too.

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Fair enough. I’ve been using node-red for automations for a while now, and it makes accessing these attributes trivial without adding the extra templates