RESTful Sensor - unique_id

Configuration
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Hi,

I have a couple of Rest sensors (for temperature), and I noticed that according to the documentation the RESTful sensor should support the uniqe_id configuration variable.

But if i enter a uniqe_id for my sensor, the validation fails in the GUI (Developer Tools/Check Configuration).

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Any ideas? It would be very convenient to be able to rename the entity in the gui.

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Please paste the YAML config for your sensors, properly formatted with the </> button.

I have a rest sensor (sensor.rest rather than rest.sensor) with a unique_id that passes configuration checks and allows an area to be set.

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There are two REST integrations, one that supports unique_id and the other that doesn’t.

4

Wow, this is… confusing. :slight_smile:

I am running Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi, nothing special.

I just added the following snippet to configuration.yaml, so i guess I am using sensor.rest?

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://192.168.192.7/json/?sensor=ute1
    value_template: "{{ value_json.value }}"
    unit_of_measurement: "°C"
    name: "Temp Ute"
#    unique_id: "temp_ute1"
#    this line fails validation!
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According to the error message, I am using sensor.rest?

This is my entire configuration.yaml. The only thing added manually is the temperature sensor.

# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

tellstick:
    host: core-tellstick
    port: [50800, 50801]

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    unique_id: temp_ute1
    resource: http://192.168.192.7/json/?sensor=ute1
    value_template: "{{ value_json.value }}"
    unit_of_measurement: "°C"
    name: "Temp Ute"

Edit: Sorry for the duplicate post. Forum didn´t work as I expected.

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@llelundberg — I think your HA installation needs updating. unique_id appears to have been added to sensor.rest in June 2022: if your system is complaining, I’d suggest it’s older than that.

This isn’t true: they both support unique_id. From rest.sensor docs:

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Yes! You are correct, I was running 2022.6.7. Upgrading to 2023.1.7 solved my problem.

Thanks!

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