Hi all,
After reading The Future of YAML post, I was looking to migrate my Utility Meter and custom Sensor Template definitions from YAML to the UI.
However while testing this with a first Utility Meter, I noticed that even when reusing the same entity_id the history of the YAML entity was not “transferred” to the UI entity.
I presume it is because YAML entities don’t have a permanent unique Id, as UI entities have, making HA consider them as 2 different things.
So I was wondering if there was any way to migrate seamlessly the YAML entities to UI entities without loosing the history (by manually editing the .storage/core.config_entries file that contains the UI definitions ?), or to transfer the history from the old entity to the new one.
This would be especially useful as I have a lot of utility meters & sensor templates involved in long period queries via InfluxDB/Grafana dashboards, which would not correctly sum values if the history is “broken” at some point in time.
Thank you.