Hello Folks.
I have 2 humidity sensors in my 2 bathrooms, and looking at the graph, figured everyone probably could tell that I have 4 people taking showers each day.
I know a template would be needed, to count the # of people have been in shower for the day… and if possible I’d like the counter to reset at, say, 1am each day.
How do I approach this? Where do I start?
Do I make two template binary sensors off the two humidity sensors, to know when “someone” is showering at the moment, and then make another template sensor to count (how?) the # of times the two template binary sensors being on ? How do I reset the counter? Do I need automation and/or script to achieve the whole thing? Or can it be done in some elegant way, where I would only need to make one template sensor (vs 3, plus automation, etc.) in a self-contained fashion - no external automation nor script needed?
Make a template binary sensor off the two humidity sensors, to know when “someone” is showering; then use a History Stats sensor to count the “on” states. Concurrent showers in the two room might be an issue…
Or, you could use a combination of template binary sensors and a trigger-based template sensor.
template:
- binary_sensor:
- name: Shower active Bathroom 1
state: "{{ states('sensor.bathroom_1_humidty')|float(0) > 65 }}"
delay_off: "00:05:00"
- name: Shower active Bathroom 2
state: "{{ states('sensor.bathroom_2_humidty')|float(0) > 65 }}"
delay_off: "00:05:00"
- triggers:
- trigger: state
to: 'on'
from: 'off'
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.shower_active_bathroom_1
- binary_sensor.shower_active_bathroom_2
- id: reset
trigger: time
at: "00:00:01"
sensor:
- name: Daily Shower count
state: |
{% set current = (this.state or 0)|int(0) %}
{{ 0 if trigger.id == 'reset' else current + 1 }}
Maybe Wash Data could be leveraged to handle it…? That’s probably overkill, but it might make it easier to get an accurate count of concurrent showers.
