How to manually set state/value of sensor?

Configuration
265

i try another way with customize.yaml:
But states not working in customize?

customize:
  person.ben:
    last_room: {{ states('sensor.ben_iphone_ble_area') }}
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If I could piggyback from this, hope you don’t mind.

I have Midea Integration installed and one of the entities available is:

binary_sensor.141837000261236_full_dust

I can manually change the state in the Developers tab under states, but it seems to only change it in Hass for a few seconds and then reverts back to the state the unit is displaying.

How can I get Hass to change the state on the AC Unit so that I can use that in an automation for when I clean the filter, I can simply use Hass to turn off the alert; rather than having to load the MIdea SmartHome App to do it? Isn’t this possible?

267

That means the state is coming from the unit. I’m not familiar with this device but I’d wager you just need to wait for it to report that it’s “not full of dust”.

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268

Okay. Well for now I will just use my IR gateway and see if I can control it that way. I hope the integration opens up this functionality but I am not holding my breathe. LOL Thanks for your response!

269

Pretty sure you can only change the ‘full of dust’ state of both the Midea and the state it stores in home assistant by physically removing the dust.

Once done, you may have to ‘turn-it-off-and-on-again’ to force the Midea to check just how dusty it still is :slight_smile:

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Ya, I tried both waiting to see if it sees that it’s clear, to clear that alert on its own, but also turned it off/on several times yesterday trying to get my IR Gateway programmed (which doesn’t have the option to clear the alert).

It looks like I’m stuck having to go into the Midea SmartHome App every time to clear the alert. Sucks!!

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Hi Colton, just out of curiosity, which of the various Midea integrations are you using

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I have them both installed LOL. At one point, one would work and the other didn’t. Then it flipped. So I kept both installed just in case one stops working. Haha

273

Hi,
sometimes the garage door sensor doesn’t detect when it closes and stays set to “open,” even though it’s actually closed. I saw that through the developer tools I can force the state to “closed” (off), and the sensor stays in this state until the next opening.
Now, I would like to set up a button that changes the state to “off” when necessary.

I tried with the script described here, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work.
The script is installed correctly because I can see it among the action options, but I can’t get the button to work. Here is the code:

type: button
entity: input_button.finto
tap_action:
 action: python_script.set_state
 data:
   entity_id: binary_sensor.box_porta
   state: "off"

Has something perhaps changed with the latest versions of HA?

EDIT:
with this code it works:

tap_action:
  action: perform-action
  perform_action: python_script.set_state
  data:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.box_porta
    state: "off"
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sorry for the off topic here, but replying to your specific Garage door issue:
my Somfy does the same, and it has to do with delays in the communication in various directions… what you can do is close it again, and it will immediately show the right state?

seems using this python script isnt the right approach for the issue you have.

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I stumbled across this thread many moons ago, and used the python script for a while.

As others have said on this thread, if you are manually setting the state of a sensor, you are almost certainly fixing a symptom (hey my thing doesnt always update when it should) and not a problem.

It works, it does what it says on the box, but its just not the right way to do it. In almost every case, a template will be more robust.

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thanks for your replay. I am aware that the issue is with communication, but I don’t have good Wi-Fi coverage in the garage. The only way I can solve it is by checking that it’s actually closed and forcing the sensor. For now, this solution is fine.