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Hello…My mother-in-law, from Viet Nam, is visiting for a few months; I’m setting up separate dashboards in Vietnamese for her use. Most are simple mirrors of my existing dashboards with labels converted to Vietnamese language. I am struggling with a few things that should be simple to convert, but cannot get to work. In particular weather automation, I want to present my current weather dashboards with English weather parameters converted to metric. For example I have an Ecowitt integration that presents the majority of my home weather station data to my ‘normal’ weather dashboard. I converted all the labels to Vietnamese for the alternate language dashboard, which was easy, but I cannot find a way to convert the weather parameters to provide both metric and English; it’s either one or the other.

I could create some type of conversion formula to massage the data conversion and post it back to a display, but am hoping there is an ‘easier’ way or an existing automation to perform such a task. Thanks in Advance for any assistance…Brian

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Are you using the built-in weather card? Otherwise, look for a custom card where you can set/override the unit system. HA’s unit system setting is global for your server and it will automatically convert values to that unit system.

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Pieter: Thank You
I may have a solution: I have two Weather receivers that can independently receive data from the same weather station. The Ecowitt integration will see each data source as unique, so for example, the same temperature sensor will be reported twice to the integration from each receiver. I can set “Receiver A” to send data using english parameters and “Receiver B” as metric.

On the integration side Home Assistant will discover two devices, although in reality both are reporting the same data in different formats

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I thought about you making an additional template weather integration, but HA will translate the values.