How to define sensors properly?

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I am aware I risk everyone’s wrath by asking question I can very likely find somewhere in documentation but I am happy to admit I am way out of my league here and just barely manage to keep my HASS alive by copypaste. Simply don’t understand most of the stuff around :roll_eyes:
Anyway, really simple question: I defined two sensors in sensors.yaml reading data from my weather station. WS gives me temperature in C but because I want to calculate heat index later, I want to get those two sensors, one with the result in C, other in F.

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However, both give me the same result, temperature in C. How so?
Now I know there are many other ways how to achieve this. I am just curious why this particular one does not work. It looks simple enough…

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Home assistant converts temperatures to units based on your location and there is nothing you can do about it.

This has made a lot of people very unhappy.

You will have to do the conversion in your heat index calculation template.

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Just like I said, very simple indeed. Thank you for your answer and your time!
(I was quite confused why in Developer Tools the F sensor doesn’t only show temperature in C but also displays C as units despite F being clearly defined in the sensors. Now I understand).