Set Value to "0" if entity is not Available

tom_l · August 6, 2021, 7:48am

Almost. If you don’t want to use the shorter config I posted yours should be:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "CPULoad"
        unit_of_measurement: "%"
        state: >
         {% if states('sensor.cpuload') == 'unavailable' %}
           0
         {% else %}
           {{states('sensor.cpuload')}}
         {% endif %}

You could also just do this:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "CPULoad"
        unit_of_measurement: "%"
        state: "{{ states('sensor.cpuload')|float }

The float filter will return 0 for strings.

Yes. Here are two ways:

or