Stoopid newbie question: dashboard thing not updating

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I am new to Home Assistant, playing with my first dashboard, and I have what is probably a stoopid newbie problem: some of the things on my dashboard are not updating. Specifically, my Netatmo devices (highlighted in red below):

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…show the values they had five hours ago, whereas when I click on one of them, the underlying system clearly knows that the values have been changing all this time (see inset in above picture).

Other things are updating (e.g. the Nest one). What might I have misunderstood about how this works?

This is what the code for the Netatmo thing pictured above contains (I merely allowed the “add to dashboard” button to do its job, nothing fancy):

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: sensor.temperature_humidity_noise_and_co2_temperature
    name: Temperature
    secondary_info: last-updated
  - entity: sensor.temperature_humidity_noise_and_co2_humidity
    name: Humidity
  - entity: sensor.temperature_humidity_noise_and_co2_carbon_dioxide
    name: Carbon dioxide
  - entity: sensor.temperature_humidity_noise_and_co2_noise
    name: Noise
title: Kitchen, 18
show_header_toggle: true

[I use the word “thing” above as I’m not yet exactly sure what these dashboard blobs are meant to be referred to as]

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This is not a problem in the frontend. dasboard just displays the state for entities. How often the entity state is updated is up to component / integrations. As you can see in the kitchen temperature. the state in card is the same 19.5 as in the more-info dialog.

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That’s what I thought at first as well, but then I saw that the arrow points to a time way in the past and the latest temperature in the chart is way higher than the number shown.

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How would I determine what the Netatmo integration does in terms of updating the things it is attached to? The only configuration option I get on the Netatmo integration is to give it a name:

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Yes: the displayed value is correct, in that 5 hours ago the temperature was 19.5 C, whereas what I want the dashboard to display is the temperature now, which, from the graph, the integration knows is more like 20.5 C.

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This is probably the problem with Netatmo. You can try reloading the whole integration to see if the state of the entities is updated to the current value. Right side, three dots icon > reload.

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Unfortunately re-loading the integration didn’t change the Netatmo-related values shown on the dashboard, refreshing the dashboard page in the browser did update to the latest values, let’s see if the values will change now without a manual refresh…

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And you can zoom in on the graph to see what it shows in more detail. It doesn’t always have to match the visible value on the line

2025-02-13 20.19.28

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Yes, seems to be working fine now, must have been a gremlin somewhere that a noob is not used to allowing for. Thanks for the support!