'Sensor notes' integration thoughts

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Hi All,

Thanks for the wonderful community.

I wondered whether anyone has come across an integration which allows the details of the (hardware) sensors within a device to be captured and associated with a Home Assistant device - similar to what the great Battery Notes HACS integration does for batteries.

I was looking for such an integration when comparing the readings from different devices and wanting to capture the sensor type (i.e. SHT21), measurements for sensor (temp, humidity) and accuracy (+/- 5%).

I had a look through HACS but was not able to find anything.

Many thanks

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Welcome.

Please use the search function as suggested in the pinned topic. How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question

An open Feature Request (and a viable workaround) already exists for this. I suggest you vote here.

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Following the guidance, I took the following approach which worked as required.

Customisation of Home Assistant sensor

homeassistant:
  customize:
    sensor.est_poe_32_8f51bc_metriful_temperature:
      sensor: "Bosch Sensortec BME680"
      accuracy: "± 0.5 - 1.0"
      resolution: 0.1
      minimum: -40
      maximum: 85

Use of auto-entities and template-entity-row custom UI components to render the sensor information

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.*
      attributes:
        device_class: atmospheric_pressure
      options:
        type: custom:template-entity-row
        name: >
          {{ area_name('this.entity_id') }} - {{ state_attr('this.entity_id',
          'friendly_name') }}  
        secondary: |
          {{ state_attr('this.entity_id', 'sensor') }}
        state: >
          {{ states('this.entity_id') }} {{ state_attr('this.entity_id',
          'unit_of_measurement') }}
  exclude: []
sort:
  method: state
  numeric: true

home-assistant-entity-with-sensor-type

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