Need persons state in esphome

ESPHome
1

I want to display the state of several persons on a display.
If they are home there name/icon should be bright. if they are away is should be dark.

I think i can handle that part, but i can’t find out how to get te state of a person in esphome

i tryed this

text_sensor:
  - platform: homeassistant
    id: arnold
    entity_id: person.arnold

how can i get the state of person.arnold

2

What do you see in the ESPHome logs for that?
During development you can add internal: false so you can better see what is happening.

You can also try importing it as a binary sensor instead. Maybe person is a boolean under the hood (I’m not sure).

1 Like
3

It won’t compile some kind of error about a vtable.
Currently not behind my computer so can’t post the error code.

4

The error must be from another configuration.

text_sensor:
  - platform: homeassistant
    name: Person
    id: person_junior
    entity_id: person.junior
    internal: false
5

still getting this error

when removing the piece off code it compiles without error’s


/data/cache/platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa-esp32s3/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-esp32s3-elf/8.4.0/../../../../xtensa-esp32s3-elf/bin/ld: .pioenvs/wekker/src/main.o:(.literal._Z5setupv+0x2a4): undefined reference to `vtable for esphome::homeassistant::HomeassistantTextSensor'
6

First thing I would try is update ESPHome and Home Assistant to latest release then clean build files and try again.

7

Are you using esp-idf or Arduino?

8

By cleaning the build files and recompiling it works now.
thanks for the help.

For those who whats to know i’m using esp-idf

esp32:
  board: esp32s3box
  variant: ESP32S3
  flash_size: 8MB
  framework:
    type: esp-idf