hi im trying to make some Last month Entity Power usage… and i set automation to run at the end of the month at 23:59:00 now it basicly works i can get it to set the state… but when i reboot home assistant it sets it to unavliable
what am i doing wrong that its buggering up my sensor on reboot
its acting like a switch going connected and unavliable when it looses wifi connection
here is screen shot of one of them
It’s because of this action: python_script.set_state
You probably noticed that there’s no native action for setting a sensor entity’s state. That’s by design; its state value is meant to updated exclusively by its underlying integration.
You used a custom python_script to, effectively, “poke” a value into the state machine. However, that technique produces an ephemeral value; it doesn’t survive a restart.
Instead of an automation that attempts to set the values of Template Sensors, I suggest you consider creating Trigger-based Template Sensors (their state value survives a restart).
template:
- trigger:
- trigger: template
value_template: >
{{ (now().hour, now().minute) == (23, 59) and (now() + timedelta(days=1)).day == 1 }}
sensor:
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_total
state: "{{ states('sensor.current_monthly_consumption') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_on_peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_on_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_mid_peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_mid_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_off_peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_off_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total Cost
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_total_cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.current_monthly_consumption') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak Cost
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_on_peak_cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_on_peak_cost') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak Cost
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_mid_peak_cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_mid_peak_cost') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak Cost
unique_id: last_months_power_usage_off_peak_cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_off_peak_cost') }}"
and when it boots up it sets the sensors to unknown and when HA says its started it turns the all the values to unavliable
are my templates wrong?
i also had to look up what the word ephemeral ment lol
and i was hoping to figure a way you could just have a sensor that read the last months data and put it in the sensor… like from all the line charts… but i couldnt find anything so me doing it this way was best way i could figure out how to do a a reading of previous months cost and usage
once this works i plan to do yesterdays and Last weeks power usage… i wish there was easier way unless there is a way but this seemed best i could do
Copy-paste this into the Template Editor and let me know what it reports.
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total
state: "{{ states('sensor.current_monthly_consumption') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_on_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_mid_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_off_peak') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total Cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.current_monthly_consumption') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak Cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_on_peak_cost') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak Cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_mid_peak_cost') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak Cost
state: "{{ states('sensor.energy_import_hydro_one_monthly_off_peak_cost') }}"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total
state: "311.1"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak
state: "14.46"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak
state: "50.80"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak
state: "24.90"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Total Cost
state: "311.1"
- name: Last Months Power Usage On Peak Cost
state: "0.079"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Mid Peak Cost
state: "0.0"
- name: Last Months Power Usage Off Peak Cost
state: "0.0"
so least the template editor showing the values at least
For testing purposes, replace the existing triggers with a Time Trigger. Set it a few minutes in the future and (after Reloading Template Entities) wait for it to trigger at the scheduled time. It’s a better simulation than a startup trigger.
so i think its working for whatever reason its also a pain where the cost sensor resets to unknown and u gotta wait for it to count and yet the energy page shows the cost… but for whatever reason its now 1 decimal place i added a round 2… but its not working so i cant 100% test if its working least there are 0 now and not the unavliable after i had to delete the orginal and then rename the ones woth _2 to without it…
probably just easier let it run for a while to get 2 decimals and ill see how well it works… so far it seems to work for the consumption the cost not yet so ill let you know later if its working ill just let it sit and idle to get new cost i dunno why it easily starts at 0 but it does go figure lol
so couple things… everytime i reboot HA it resets the Costs. is there no way for the Energy it retains it? it retains it on the Energy Page… but not the actual sensor…
2nd there is no Preceision when you choose Gear… not an option and then i i did the timer to run at 8pm and then did this
I had problems with restoring a value of one of my sensors on reboot. My application is a flow meter. I’m using an Arduino runing MySensors through a MySensors Gateway to HA. The Arduino EEPROM has a life of about 100,000 writes, which would be exceeded quickly. I found that value in HA’s input number suvives a reboot/power cycle.
Here’s how it works:
On an Arduino boot, the pulse count variable is presented to HA and the pulse count, being 0, is sent to HA.
If HA sees the state (value) as zero, HA will send the value in the input number
If HA sees the state as neither zero nor one, HA will update the input number with the value sent.
@OldSurferDude ok ill take a look at the way you do it. always looking for new ways of doing stuff
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so there is precision display on the orginal sensor… from the ulity meter … but the ones created from the trigger… it removes the display precison
so if its 0.06 it displays it at 0.0 but on the orginal sensor it shows 0.06
and is there anyway to retain the utlity meter costs on reboot other then in the energy page… but the trigger part did work to spit that 8 decimal into it… and it should have spit out 2 decimals i guess… very frustrating but i keep plugging away to do a weekly and yesterdays display… in the mean time
Given that this application involves multiple sensor entities, just saying “Costs” doesn’t identify which cost-related sensor entity you’re referring to. There are 8 cost-related entities, 4 sources and 4 Trigger-based. Which ones are being reset?
Add a unit_of_measurement field (with an appropriate value) to each Trigger-based Template Sensor that you want to control its display precision.
I don’t understand the issue. I have sensor entities created by the Utility Meter integration and they don’t lose their values after a restart.
they only retain on the Energy Dashboard… but on the sensors itself or you goto to States page and search for them they are always unknown after a reboot and start off with unknown then go 0.0
You’ll need to fix that before proceeding with what I suggested (or with what OldSurferDude suggested or anything else for that matter). This is now a completely different problem to solve. Good luck!
It normally does; resetting on startup is abnormal.
