Made a sensor in template, now what?

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HI good people.

I want to add two PV panels power output together and show that as one gauge on the UI.

I have created this code in the template editor:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Total Charging Power"
        unit_of_measurement: "W"
        device_class: power
        state: >
          {{ [ states('sensor.solarsynk_2403258282_pv1_power'), 
               states('sensor.solarsynk_2403258282_pv2_power') ]
               | map('float') | sum }}
        availability: >
          {{ not 'unavailable' in 
             [ states('sensor.inverter1qpigs_pv1_charging_power'), 
               states('sensor.inverter2qpigs_pv2_charging_power') ] }}

On the right hand side it gave me this result:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Total Charging Power"
        unit_of_measurement: "W"
        device_class: power
        state: >
          4702.0
        availability: >
          True

What do I do now? I can not find “Total Charging Power” in my entities. I am sure I need to create the sensor still, but I am not sure where or how.

Thanks

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That is the template editor. It is used for testing templates. It does not create entities.

You need to add that configuration to your configuration.yaml file and restart home assistant.

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This is my configuration file:


# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Load frontend themes from the themes folder
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

# Text-to-speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

Do I just copy and paste it at the bottom? All of it, even the “template:” line?

4

Yes.

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This worked 100%, thank you very much.

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