Temperature display in area card

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I’m using area cards and room temperature is correctly shown on the card, very nice feature btw. It works if it is somehow a discrete sensor received / provided by MQTT sensor. However I’m using also in two rooms aqara window sensors, received by ZigBee bridge. These window sensors also provide a temperature. However this temperature is not shown on area card, even is assigned to same area room…

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Any idea what is the problem here?

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Did you work this out? Mine was wrong too but it looks like the average temperature is shown on the card. For me, I removed the other.

Maybe changing the other temp to Diagnostic entities helps?

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I have the same problem with the Area Widget - regarding to the tempreture coming from my homematic thermostate.
This is sadly missing and i don’t know how to enable the temparture for the Area:

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To get temperature on area card (or any other type of sensor), you must have a sensor with device_class: temperature in the area, and it must not be a diagnostic sensor.

If you only have a diagnostic sensor or a climate entity, you can use a template to create a temperature sensor for the area, and that will be shown on area card.

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My temperature was a diagnostic sensor. Creating a template sensor fixed the issue and made it appear in the Area card.

  1. Create Helper
  2. Select Template
  3. Template a sensor
  4. Fill that out and use this with your sensor’s name {{states('sensor.device_temperature')}}
  5. Assign the helper to the area
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