Sensor update intervals too long

Hi there,

I have two issues with update interval of sensors in my history for which I can’t find a solution:

  1. I have a lawnmower integrated in Home Assistant using HACS (Landroid Cloud). This creates a sensor called vacuum.mower with lots of attributes (e.g. “orientation”) and sub-attributes (e.g. “roll”, “pitch”, …).
    Since this sensor is huge and I don’t want it to spam my database, I excluded it in Recorder, but I created template sensors for the data that I need, and those are recorded. Example of such a sensor for a sub-attribute can be found below.
    Now, the issue is that the data is only recorded every once in a while, and I think it is when the main sensor (vacuum.mower) changes state. But this only happens when it undocks / docks / goes into error / … so it can easily be hours in between. This messes up my data recording and graphs.
    How can I make sure that the value of these sensors is recorded at fixed time intervals, even when the main sensor state doesn’t change?
- platform: template
  sensors:
    mower_rain:
      friendly_name: "Rain delay"
      value_template: "{{ state_attr('vacuum.mower', 'rain_sensor')['remaining'] }}"
  1. I have a similar issue with Google Nest Thermostat integration, although there I can’t pinpoint the reason. So this integration in fact: Google Nest - Home Assistant
    It creates a sensor for the thermostat, as well as 2 separate sensors for temperature and humidity. I record all of them, and make a graph of temp and humidity, but the temperature value makes jumps every half hour / hour / 2 hours / … Not consistent but in any case too long.
    I would understand this if the temperature is stable, but it’s being logged up to a tenth of a degree (now 24,8°C) and sometimes jumps up & down by 1 degree or more, so this seems strange.

I know it’s not graph configuration related, since I see the same in Home Assistant in the History tab, so it’s really the logging itself that’s not smooth.
Anyone that can pinpoint me in the right direction?

Thanks!
Davy

Update: Moved this to configuration since it may have been in the wrong group.