Template help?

[InsanityFlea]

Not sure why it’s complaining.

{{ states ((‘sensor.grid_consumption’) | float) / 10 | round }}’ but no default was specified. Currently ‘float’ will return ‘0’, however this template will fail to render in Home Assistant core 2022.1

[tom_l]

Read the release notes for 2021.10.

[InsanityFlea]

Will do, thanks.
Found it.

In Home Assistant Core 2021.12 the template will fail to render if no default value is specified. You can specify a default value by passing to the filter like this: {{ "abc" | float(default=0) }} .

[tom_l]

You can also specify |float(0) as it only takes one argument. See here for more:

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