Hi, I was trying to create new sensor with current day of the week and then use it in some automations/scripts or UI. This is my sensor configuration day_of_the_week: entity_id: sensor.date friendly_name: "Day of the week" value_template: > …

Well, your template sensor depends on the sensor.date. If you don’t have that sensor, you need to add it to HA. [image] Time & Date Instructions on how to integrate the time and the date within Home Assistant.

Is the sensor.date not updating or only the template sensor?

Go to Dev Tools/states and look for the sensors.

Have you got sensor.date in yours? I don’t. This is some prebuilt sensor: [image] Template Instructions on how to integrate Template Sensors into Home Assistant.

I’ll give it a try. Result will be visible tomorrow… or not :slight_smile:

[image] mgrom: Have you got sensor.date in yours? I don’t. This is some prebuilt sensor: It’s part of the Time and Date component and you have to define it in your configuration file (or sensor.yaml file) before you can use it in template sensors, automations, etc. Minimally, you need to add…

Thanks. I fell for the same trap, assumed it is in-built and always available. Maybe it even was in the past, I had no problem a few months ago. Any idea how to make that clearer in the documentation here? [image] Template Instructions on how to integrate Template Sensors into Home Assi…

[image] PeterP: assumed it is in-built and always available I can’t think of anything in the sensor domain that’s in-built. If you’re assigning something to entity_id it must be an entity. Entities are defined manually or through discovery.

I have a similar sensor on my config - but it looks like it stopped updating a couple of days ago. sensor.date and sensor.time both seem to be updating fine, but sensor.dayoftheweek, sensor.dayoftheweek_tomorrow and sensor.isfirstthursday are not :confused: Any ideas please? #----- Day of the wee…

entity_id as part of a template sensor is deprecated in 0.115.x. You need to remove them. For solutions, see this topic : [image] Heads up! Upcoming breaking change in the Template integration Configuration NOTE 2: Guidance for 0.116 and upcoming changes in 0.117 0.116 i…

Sensor.date not updating

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francisp (Francis) September 25, 2020, 7:27am 12

entity_id as part of a template sensor is deprecated in 0.115.x. You need to remove them.
For solutions, see this topic :