How can I create a sensor with 0 kwh

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I’m trying to add multiple solar charge controllers going into my batteries on the energy dashboard,
If I add the solar to the solar section it adds on to the Consumption, I managed to work it out if I add them all together into one sensor. But I found if I could find a way to set up separate for each but they are showing unknown the value is 0 on the actual sensor but when I make an helper utility meter it just shows unknown. Any ideas?

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maybe a template sensor with something like this?

{{ states('sensor.your_sensor') if states('sensor.your_sensor') != 'unknown' else 0 }}
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thanks but the sensor still says unknown on the original sensor. I need it to say 0 not unknown it will not let me add it to the energy dashboard otherwise. It will never get a value as I never have a load on my charge controller but otherwise the energy dashboard is not tracking properly. Thanks anyway

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i don’t believe you can change the original sensor. what i’m saying is that if you are doing a workaround by creating another sensor, you could use my template sensor to “wrap” the original sensor… and my new one will return 0 instead of unknown.

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ok not sure i could use that in the energy dashboard. You would think it would show 0 instead of unknown on a utility meter if 0 kwh were actually used not unknown.

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ah, i understand now. sorry… i don’t know that you can solve that without groveling into the integration code for the solor charger controllers… kinda doubt you can.

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its on the actual HA Energy page I’m trying to add the sensor The actual charge controller sensor is showing correct at 0 kwh. When I try and create a helper Utility Meter the problem is showing unknown