What is wrong with this code? What I want to achieve is that the sensor “Fuellstand_Zisterne_in Prozent” only updates every 5 minutes and not by state change of the shellyuni-adc output.
The sensor updates by state change and ignores the time pattern.
I guess I have misunderstood the funtionality of the time pattern trigger.
According to the ha docs (template integration) a trigger based template sensor gives you more control “over when an entity updates”. The docs says also “Trigger-based entities do not automatically update when states referenced in the templates change”.
Can anybody help?
You have defined a time trigger and separate sensors but the two are not linked, look at the sample from the documents:
template:
- trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
# This will update every night
hours: 0
minutes: 0
sensor:
# Keep track how many days have past since a date
- name: "Not smoking"
state:
Then look at yours:
Also you state in your post you want every 5 mins but then have put in your yaml every 5 hours, which is it you want ?
Thank you, @rossk for having this close look at my configuration! I corrected it and restartet ha. Under development tools ha says that the sensor was last updated at 8:40 (the time I restartet it after having corrected the configuration (please see picture; I took the picture at 9:17) Should’nt there having been more updates?
# Berechnung des Zisternen-Füllstands in Prozent; time_pattern sorgt dafür, dass nur alle 5 Minuten eine Messung erfolgt (alle durch 5 teilbaren Minuten)
# die unique_id der beiden Sensoren habe ich selbst vergeben, da es ohne diese Angabe zu Fehlermeldungen kam
template:
- trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: "/5"
sensor:
- name: "Fuellstand_Zisterne_in Prozent"
unique_id: fuell_103
unit_of_measurement: "%"
state: >
{{ ( states('sensor.shellyuni_xyzxyz_adc') | float | round(3) / 3 * 100) | float | round(0) }}
- name: "Fuellstand_Zisterne_in_Liter"
unique_id: fuell_102
unit_of_measurement: "l"
state: >
{{ ( states('sensor.shellyuni_xyzxyz_adc') | float | round(3) / 3 * 5200) | float | round(-1) }}
```
Do you need the complete configuration yaml?
The last changed / updated will only change if the sensor state has changed as well.
For example if I create a sensor that references a temp sensor and make it update every 1 min, the initial last changed / updated will be the first (whole) min after reloading templates or starting HA. The last change / updated will stay at the same value unless the actual temp sensor I am referencing physically changes value.
So the above will not necessarily update every 5 mins as you expected, only if the values have changed.
How can I do the same thing, but for the attribute of an entity, not the state? Currently trying to do something like this, but since the state doesn’t actually change, just the attributes, it doesn’t seem to trigger.
- trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: sensor.battery_monitor
attribute: packs
variables:
module: 1
<<: &pack_variables
main: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.packs | selectattr('module', 'eq', module|str) | first | default({}) }}"
items: >
{%- set keys = 'c1', 'c2', 'c3', 'c4', 'c5', 'c6', '+', '-', 'module' %}
{%- set ns = namespace(items=[]) %}
{%- for key in keys %}
{%- set mk = key.replace('+','pos_temp').replace('-','neg_temp') %}
{%- set name = 'P' ~ module ~ mk %}
{%- set ns.items = ns.items + [(key, {'name': name.upper(), 'value': main.get(key) })] %}
{%- endfor %}
{{ dict.from_keys(ns.items) }}
sensors: &pack_sensors
- name: "{{ items.c1.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c1.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.c2.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c2.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.c3.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c3.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.c4.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c4.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.c5.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c5.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.c6.name }}"
state: "{{ items.c6.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.pos_temp.name }}"
state: "{{ items.pos_temp.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.neg_temp.name }}"
state: "{{ items.neg_temp.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
- name: "{{ items.module.name }}"
state: "{{ items.module.value or this.state if this.state is defined else none }}"
The message is trying to tell you that the old syntax using “platform” has been discontinued. Use the syntax as shown on the manual or this post above: Link
