Sensor delay possible?

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Hello, I have a template sensor that reads the brightness level of my living room light and converts that to text, depending on which scene the light is set.

    livinglightstate:
      friendly_name: 'Living Brightness'
      value_template: >
       {% if is_state('light.living', 'off') %}
       Off
       {% elif states.light.living.attributes.brightness | float < 60 %}
       Away
       {% elif states.light.living.attributes.brightness | float < 110 %}
       TV
       {% else %}
       On
       {% endif %}

The sensor works fine and everything, but it’s a little bit annoying that when it changes state from Off to On (fades in over a few seconds) it goes through all the other options so the history looks like Off, Away, TV, On. Is there a delay function/condition it must pass through before changing the state? Say it needs to remain in one particular state for 5 seconds before it changes status? Something like the delay_on/delay_off setting that’s available on the binary sensor?

Cheers

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I’m also interested in any kind of solution for the above

3

Any news on this? I’m looking for the exact same thing.

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Okay, why don’t you have an automation that triggers on the sensor changing.
In the action section set an input text to " " (a space or empty string) then have a delay (say) 10 seconds. Then update the input text with your delayed response.
You can create another sensor displaying the text or just use the text direct

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iam really curios why this isnt a thing yet

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Has there been any change to this? I also need to add a delay to a template sensor before it updates. Basically need the same as delay_on that is available for a template binary sensor.

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With trigger-based template sensors, you decide yourself when the sensor is updated.

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Great. Thanks. It looks like I have managed to solve this by adding the following trigger to the template sensor:

- trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.name_of_sensor
      for: 00:00:01
    - platform: homeassistant
      event: start
    - platform: event
      event_type: event_template_reloaded