(history stats) simply count eggs and have a daily stats?

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Hi all, i’ve been struggling with this simple question :
i have a simple counter that i manually increment when my chicken lay eggs.
is it possible to have a daily / monthly graph form that counter ? i try history stats with the counter with no luck …


sensor:
  - platform: history_stats
    name: oeufs du jour
    entity_id: counter.oeufstotal
    state: "on"
    type: count
    start: "{{ today_at('00:00') }}"
    duration:
        hours: 24

this is from the counter :

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History stats can’t answer a question like “how much has the sensor value changed today.” You could use the statistics integration, but unfortunately it only supports max_age and sample_size as ways to restrict the time period considered – so there is no way to restrict it to just today.

You could create an input_number into which you save the oeufstotal value into every day at midnight, then create a template sensor that subtracts that input_number from oeufstotal to get the “today” count.

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Try the utility meter helper with daily and monthly cycles.

You won’t even need to reset your counter.

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Thanks guys, will try that :wink: