How to replace entity in Energy Dashboard by new one without losing history

[e-raser]

I ran into the same issue

2023.4: Custom template macros, and many more new entity dialogs!

According to 2023.4: Custom template macros, and many more new entity dialogs! - Home Assistant Home Assistant now keeps history when renaming entities Before: sensor.entity with statistics Renamed sensor.entity to sensor.entity_old Created a new sensor.entity using the same name The new sensor.entity will have the full history (states and statistics) of the old sensor.entity Now: doing the same results in a complete new history (states and statistics). How to rename entities to…

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@petro

Yes, just add the new entity. Change the entity_id of the old entity to a holder name, change the entity_id of the new entity to what the old entity’s entity_id used to be.

NO @petro, this does not seem to work anymore - at least not starting with HA Core 2023.4 …