How to manually set state/value of sensor?

[petro]

Event_template_reloaded not updating sensor

Since the recent updates I’ve been having the issue for some of my template sensor that they stay unknown for a long time since the triggers are rare. The preferred solution apparently is to listen for home assistant restarts and template reloads, but for some reason this doesn’t work for me. Actually, I’ve had it work for one sensor, but that is about it and it wouldn’t always work. I’m mystified as to why. See below for my simplest example. - trigger: - platform: state entity_id: perso…