I’m curious the best way to get a global or sensor’s float value into a template text_sensor with lambda. I tried to do it like this:
- text_sensor.template.publish:
id: ${node_name}_change_reason
state: !lambda |-
return "Turning fan on because it's hotter in the attic " + value_accuracy_to_string(x, 1) + " threshold " + value_accuracy_to_string(id(outdoor_min_temp) + id(offset_temp), 1);
but I don’t know if it’ll work and it feels like a mess. Is there a better way? I found that value_accuracy_to_string()
function here: ESPHome: esphome Namespace Reference
this is part of an on_value
so the x
should be the sensor’s value. The outdoor_min_temp
and offset_temp
values are globals.