Template Sensor Not allowing HA to restart

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Hi

Sorry for being a NOOB on this. I have looked through the forum and not managed to find a solution. I have two power meters, one measures the entire circuit and the other measures a specific device. These work perfectly, but I am double accounting the energy usage on the specific device. I would like to define another variable that I can use on the energy dashboard etc as the complete circuit - the specific device. I have created a template and it seems to work. But when I load this into my configuration.yaml it fails to restart home assistant

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      Separated_Top_Floor_Sockets_Total_Consumption:
        friendly_name: Separated Top Floor Sockets total Consumption
        unit_of_measurement: kWh
        value_template: >-
          {{ ( states('sensor.shelly_shem_3_c45bbe7998ad_3_total_consumption') | float |round(1)) -  ( states('sensor.shelly_shem_bcff4dfcdc57_1_total_consumption') | float| round(1))}}

Any help would be most appreciated

cheers

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Using the SSH add-on run

ha core check

and it’ll tell you the problem.

I’m going to guess that it’s because:

  1. you already have sensor: somewhere in configuration.yaml
  2. Separated_Top_Floor_Sockets_Total_Consumption has capitals in it, and it shouldn’t
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It looks like it was the capitols. Core check ‘try separated…’

Many thanks for your help

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This works for my own ‘live energy’ dashboard, but it wont let me add this to the official energy dashboard. It seems to be looking for devices. Can I somehow configure this as a device? Cheers