How to make Sensor show minutes or hours instead of 0.52 hours = 30 minutes

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

@lindsayward

Is there a simpler way that doesn’t involve this manual work?

There isn’t.

@lindsayward

Thanks! It seems like extra ‘work’ to do actual maths when the sensor already ‘knows’ what the time is.

The software doesn’t know anything like this per se. It’s just default behaviour to represent something – of which there can be many ways, and it depends on many factors (datetime values in general depend on your locale).

@lindsayward

If I just show the value without a template, it shows as time nicely already, but I want to use the template-entity-row entity, which doesn’t automatically convert.

Ask the maintainer if they’re willing to match HA’s default behaviour.

[cptdaydreamer]

I know this works but I cannot use it for my custom:multiple-entity-row card where I need to give an entity. I cannot manipulate it. How to fix it then?

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

You can make a template sensor and display that.

[cptdaydreamer]

Sounds like a complete overload. I already have a template sensor like the thread starter. It is insane that this is necessary for such an easy task. I have 10 of these entities with this requirement. It’s a complete bloat.

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

Perhaps, but you asked for help which I gave. I don’t know of another way. You can look for a custom card or something that might allow you to do this.

[xelemorf (xel)]

Thank you @parautenbach, I was looking for this answer for a couple of hours.

How to make Sensor show minutes or hours instead of 0.52 hours = 30 minutes

{{ timedelta(states('sensor.duration') | float(0) / 24) }} Rather use the states function and provide a default. It’s more robust.