I was trying the ‘new’ group format for combining 2 sensors.
As far as I understand this is how it should be done:
platform: group
name: "Electricity Meter Energieverbruik Total"
unique_id: "group_electricity_meter_energieverbruik_total"
type: sum
unit_of_measurement: kWh
device_class: energy
state_class: total_increasing
ignore_non_numeric: false
entities:
- sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_tarief_1
- sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_tarief_2
But it gives me the following error in the logbook:
Logger: homeassistant.components.group.sensor
Bron: components/group/sensor.py:423
integratie: Groep (documentatie, problemen)
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Unable to use state. Only numerical states are supported, entity sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_tarief_1 with value unavailable excluded from calculation in sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_total
Unable to use state. Only numerical states are supported, entity sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_tarief_2 with value unavailable excluded from calculation in sensor.electricity_meter_energieverbruik_total
Unable to use state. Only numerical states are supported, entity sensor.vaatwasser_yearly_energy_kwh with value unavailable excluded from calculation in sensor.household_yearly_energy_kwh
Unable to use state. Only numerical states are supported, entity sensor.wasmachine_yearly_energy_kwh with value unavailable excluded from calculation in sensor.household_yearly_energy_kwh
Unable to use state. Only numerical states are supported, entity sensor.wasdroger_yearly_energy_kwh with value unavailable excluded from calculation in sensor.household_yearly_energy_kwh
I do not know what is wrong or why it shows the error.
In develeper tools it has the correct calculated value.
I used to do this with a template instead of the group thing. Not sure which of the 2 is better to use.
Can anyone please explain me why i get this error?
Hello. I have the same problem with two battery sensors in a group.
But not from the beginning, only after I had changed the helper group from minimum to median and back again for testing. Only when I enable ignore non-numeric values are the warning messages suppressed. But that was not the case before my test with median and back to minimum. I had deactivated the option and still had no error messages. Now I obviously need to enable it for this one group. I hope this doesn’t cause any other problems.
I write “this one group” because exactly the two battery sensors are members of another group with all the other battery sensors. This group is also configured to minimum and ignore non-numeric values is disabled. And strangely enough, the error or warning messages will NOT appear for this other group or these two sensors as members of this other group.