Statistic Sensor Expected number or binary state, but received '“0.7” from MQTT Sensor?

Configuration
1

Hi,

i would like to track the max Wind within 24 hrs from a Bresser 433 RTL, so far, HA is receiving the value, but if i try, to figure out the max value on a day it fails with expected title failure message. Here is my YAML;

mqtt:
- name: "windmax_outside_bresser61"
    state_topic: rtl_433/bresser61/wind_max_m_s
    value_template: “{{ value | round(2) | float }}”
    icon: mdi:windsock
    unit_of_measurement: "ms"


- platform: statistics
  name: "max wind over last 24 hours"
  entity_id: sensor.windmax_outside_bresser61
  state_characteristic: value_max
  max_age:
    hours: 24
  sampling_size: 500
  precision: 1

Thank you

2

Why are you putting the statistics sensor under the mqtt integration?

The other item you have under mqtt is not correct either.

it should be something like this:

in configuration.yaml:

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "windmax_outside_bresser61"
      state_topic: rtl_433/bresser61/wind_max_m_s
      value_template: “{{ value | round(2) | float }}”
      icon: mdi:windsock
      unit_of_measurement: "ms"

sensor:  
  - platform: statistics
    name: "max wind over last 24 hours"
    entity_id: sensor.windmax_outside_bresser61
    state_characteristic: value_max
    max_age:
      hours: 24
    sampling_size: 500
    precision: 1

If you already have something like this in your configuration.yaml file:

sensor: !include sensors.yaml

Then put the statistics sensor in there instead.

sensors.yaml

- platform: statistics
  name: "max wind over last 24 hours"
  entity_id: sensor.windmax_outside_bresser61
  state_characteristic: value_max
  max_age:
    hours: 24
  sampling_size: 500
  precision: 1
3

hi, it is still separated in files, but merged for the topic

4

How were we supposed to know that?

5

thats not relevant for the syntax or problem, if the declaration is in one conf.yaml or not. thx

6

It very much is relevant. If you post invalid config the first thing someone is going to do is waste their time correcting it for you. Like I did.