Old noob needs some help with time display, days and hours instead of seconds

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Hello, I have a sensor (entity) that returns remaining time of battery charge in seconds and I’d like to see it in days and hours, exactly in this format: 3d 17h
Above is an example, but just one space between 3d and 17h, and no space between the number and d or h.
I have tried to locate some help by searching forums, but closest I got was with this:

- platform: template sensors: battery_to_go: value_template: {%- set uptime = states.sensor.victron_system_battery_time_to_go.state | round -%} {%- set sep = ' ' -%} {%- set TIME_MAP = { 'd': (uptime / 86400) % 7, 'h': (uptime / 3600) % 24, } -%} {%- for unit, duration in TIME_MAP.items() if duration >= 1 -%} {%- if not loop.first -%} {{ sep }} {%- endif -%} {{ (duration | string).split('.')[0] }} {{ unit }} {%- endfor -%} {%- if uptime < 1 -%} charge {%- endif -%}

But this code above is giving me a space between the number and a letter, so it looks like this 3 d 17 h , while I want 3d 17h .
One other thing I don’t know is what to do with this code, do I just paste it into my configuration.yaml file? That didn’t seem to work, I was getting errors.
I’m new to all this so any help is very much appreciated.

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You are very close! Jinja interprets spaces literally, so you have to remove the space here: {{ (duration | string).split('.')[0] }} {{ unit }} so that the duration and unit blocks are together, like this: {{ (duration | string).split('.')[0] }}**NO SPACE HERE**{{ unit }}

You can add this code in your configuration.yaml (or in a separate file if you use the !include directive to load separate yaml files), the (new) preferred way of adding templated sensors looks like this:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: battery_to_go
        state: >
          {%- set uptime = states('sensor.victron_system_battery_time_to_go') | round -%}
          {%- set sep = ' ' -%}
          {%- set TIME_MAP = { 'd': (uptime / 86400) % 7, 'h': (uptime / 3600) % 24, } -%}
          {%- for unit, duration in TIME_MAP.items() if duration >= 1 -%}
            {%- if not loop.first -%}{{ sep }}{%- endif -%}
            {{ (duration | string).split('.')[0] }}{{ unit }}
          {%- endfor -%}
          {%- if uptime < 1 -%} charge {%- endif -%}

Side note: states('sensor.victron_system_battery_time_to_go') is better to use than states.sensor.victron_system_battery_time_to_go.state, because it does not throw any errors when the sensor isn’t loaded yet, for instance during HomeAssistant startup. Has helped me reduce a lot of errors in the logs. :smiley:

Hope this helps!

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That did it, thank you !
Now next thing is where do I place this code? I’ve tried to paste it into my configuration.yaml, but that threw an error. What’s the best way to use this?

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Never-mind, I got it to work, thanks again !!!

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