Newbie - Trying to add/modify a valid configuration.yaml with a sensor and template

Configuration
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Hello, syntax error after add a sensor and template for my existant configuration.yaml.

Konfiguration failure!

Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while scanning for the next token found character ‘\t’ that cannot start any token in “/config/configuration.yaml”, line 39, column 1

➜ config diff configuration.yaml configuration.yaml.bak
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< sensor:

  • sensor:
    27c27
    < sensor:
  • sensor:
    36,60d35
    <
    <
    < - platform: command_line
    < name: power_balkon_pv_now
    < command: “curl http://192.168.178.26/status.html | grep -e “\var webdata_now_p” | cut -d’”’ -f 2"
    < unit_of_measurement: ‘W’
    < scan_interval: 60
    <
    < - platform: command_line
    < command: “curl http://192.168.178.26/status.html | grep -e “\var webdata_total_e” | cut -d’”’ -f 2"
    < name: power_balkon_pv_total
    < unit_of_measurement: ‘kWh’
    < scan_interval: 120
    <
    < sensor:
    < - platform: template
    < sensors:
    < extracted_data:
    < friendly_name: “balkon_pv_energy”
    < value_template: “{{ states(‘sensor.power_balkon_pv_total’) if states(‘sensor.power_balkon_pv_total’) | float > 0 }}”
    < unit_of_measurement: kWh
    < device_class: energy
    < state_class: total_increasing
    < unique_id: balkon_pv_energy
    <
    ➜ config

How should I successfully integrated the above sensor and template to my configuration.yaml?

Thanks for your feedback and support in advance?

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The code you posted is formatted wrong. How did you get this code and did you post it here using the code tags? Just a quick glance and i see that you have double quotes in your double quotes. That wont work anyway:
command: “curl http://192.168.178.26/status.html | grep -e “\var webdata_now_p” | cut -d’”’ -f 2"
Will be read as “curl http://192.168.178.26/status.html | grep -e “ so the next character will be a \ and that will fail.

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For reference:

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See the sticky post on code markup.

And see the FAQ about that error.

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Thanks for the helpfull hints! Finaly I am using now the file editor with syntax check to edit my configuration.yaml.

The first part of the new added entries are now valid. But I still have a problem to add with valid syntax check the last part to my configuration.yaml. What could be the reason that the following lines are invalid?

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      extracted_data:
        friendly_name: "balkon_pv_energy"
        value_template: {{ states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') if states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') | float > 0 }}
	unit_of_measurement: kWh
    	device_class: energy
    	state_class: total_increasing
    	unique_id: balkon_pv_energy

Thanks for your feedback and support in advance.

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Try aligning unit_of_measurement with value_template

This for example is a working sensor format I have:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      unmonitored_power:
        friendly_name: Unmonitored Power
        unique_id: Unmonitored_Power
        device_class: power
        unit_of_measurement: W
        value_template: "{{ (
        (states('sensor.legrand_consumo_totale_electricalmeasurement') | float(0))
        - (states('sensor.tutti_i_consumi_monitorati') | float(0))
        ) | float(0) | round(0)}}"
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Also, I notice my value template start and ends with ", yours not.

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value_template: {{ states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') if states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') | float > 0 }}

The single line template needs to be between quotes:
In this cast double qoutes outside.

value_template: "{{ states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') if states('sensor.power_balkon_pv_total') | float > 0 }}"