How to get solar displayed with a simple sensor?

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I have the following sensors configured and the first one is continuously provided with real time solar power by another device. This I can see by looking at the entity data. The second sensor is straight from the documentation.

 - platform: mqtt
    name: "Solar panels total power"
    state_topic: "solar/totalPower"
    value_template: '{{ value | float }}'
    device_class: power
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.solar_panels_total_power
    name: solar_energy
    unit_prefix: k
    round: 2

I can add the latter integration-sensor to the solar settings but after adding it looks like this (“statistics_not_defined”):

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And the Energy dashboard itself tells me that there is no data to report. I’ve waited for several hours.

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What does the sensor itself report in the integration page?

3

I’m sorry, where is an “integration page”?

4

Settings>Integrations>(solar integration)>devices (inside integration box)

Or search for sensor entity and look at properties to se e if it is outputting what you want first.

5

Looks like upgrading to the latest 2023.X version if Homeassistant Core made it work more robustly. I was running a one year old version.

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Yes, they have added a ton of support with variables and decimals in the latest revisions.