How to display ONE Line of a Template Sensor - Hours and Minutes

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Chaps

I’m tracking the hours and minutes my kids watch Twitch Streamers. Originally I just had a “COUNTER” that was active when they were watching which have me a NUMBER total.

I followed another thread and used someone’s templating knowledge (far above mine) to create a template that converts it into Hours and Minutes. This is great but if I try and display this in a card (or Dev Tools) it gives the following output (With all the words included in front of the result)

  • platform: template
    sensors:
    minutes_to_hours:
    value_template: >
    0 minutes

Is there anyway JUST to display the lines with Hours and Minutes

Here is the template code

  • platform: template
    sensors:
    minutes_to_hours:
    value_template: >
    {% set ct = states(‘sensor.template_sensor_twitch_streamers_active’) | int %}
    {% if ct > 60 %}{{ ct // 60 }}:{{ ‘{:0>2d}’.format(ct%60) }} hours{% else %}{{ct}} minutes{% endif %}
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Please post your code as preformatted text (</> in the cogwheel menu). This makes it easier for people to copy your code so that they can try it out.

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Hey man, sorry I didn’t know you could do that
So this is the Template that converts hours to minutes

- platform: template
  sensors:
    minutes_to_hours:
      value_template: >
        {% set ct = states('sensor.template_sensor_twitch_streamers_active') | int %}
        {% if ct > 60 %}{{ ct // 60 }}:{{ '{:0>2d}'.format(ct%60) }} hours{% else %}{{ct}} minutes{% endif %}

And then I display the result in an entities card

card:
  type: entities
  entities:
    - entity: sensor.template_sensor_twitch_streamers_active_hours_minutes
      name: Time Streaming
  title: Twitch Streamers Last Active / Total Hours
  state_color: true
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For completeness. This is the output I receive. Would be nice if it was just the minutes and hours results.

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Are you placing the template code in the card yaml?
That is not how you should do it.

Either in configuration.yaml or easier, do it in settings → devices & Services → Helpers → and add a template sensor.
in the code field just past the last two lines.

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Mate
Your a LEGEND
Yes I already had it in a Template Sensor (Setting/Helpers/Sensor)
But yes I had all the text. I didn’t realise I just needed the last two lines

For anyone else that stumbles across this and wants the solution.

Original Code Template Sensor Code

- platform: template
  sensors:
    minutes_to_hours:
      value_template: >
        {% set ct = states('sensor.template_sensor_twitch_streamers_active') | int %}
        {% if ct > 60 %}{{ ct // 60 }}:{{ '{:0>2d}'.format(ct%60) }} hours{% else %}{{ct}} minutes{% endif %}

New Template Sensor Code

{% set ct = states('sensor.template_sensor_twitch_streamers_active') | int %}
        {% if ct > 60 %}{{ ct // 60 }}:{{ '{:0>2d}'.format(ct%60) }} hours{% else %}{{ct}} minutes{% endif %}