Hi,
I am not very familiar with Jinja templates, mostly get syntax from all awesome guys posting in this community. however I couldn’t find what I am searching for.
I need to show the last changed time as follows:
I really appreciate any advice
Thanks in advance
RS
Rami, this may be taking your brief too literally, but try the following:
{% set last_changed = states.sensor.XXXX.last_changed %}
{%- set delta = (now() - last_changed | as_local).total_seconds() / 3600 %}
{%- set weekday = last_changed.strftime("%A") %}
{%- set time = last_changed.strftime("%H:%M") %}
{%- if delta < 24 %} {{ [ "Today at "~time, delta|round(0)~" hours ago" ] | random }}
{%- elif 24 < delta < 48 %} Yesterday at {{ time }}
{%- else %} {{ weekday~" at "~time}} {%- endif %}
Thank you very much Drew, This is perfect… I tried it. below my observation:
I think it has something to do with when the code/entity refreshes!
I will give it more time and see how it goes.
Much appreciate it though on the logic/code a lot to be learnt from for other stuff as well 
That’s what I meant by “taking your brief too literally”… 
You wrote:
The following clause causes it to randomly shuffle between the two formats every time the template refreshes:
{{ [ "Today at "~time, delta|round(0)~" hours ago" ] | random }}
You can switch it out for either {{ "Today at "~time }} or {{ delta|round(0)~" hours ago" }}
this should get you what you want.
You will need to put your data in for the ‘time’ variable.
{% set time = states('input_datetime.both_date_and_time') %}
{% if as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') == as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') %}
Today at {{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }} ({{ ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(time)) / 3600 ) | int}} hours ago)
{% elif as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') == (as_timestamp(now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0)) - 3600) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') %}
Yesterday at {{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}
{% elif as_timestamp(time) < as_timestamp(now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0)) - (3600 * 1) and as_timestamp(now()) - 84600 * 7 < as_timestamp(time) %}
{{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%A at %H:%M') }}
{% else %}
More than a week ago
{% endif %}
there may be a more elegant way to do it but this works in my testing.
see what you think.
LOL, indeed that was ‘literally’ but the ‘Today…’ format displays the GMT time not the local time
Ok, I understand now… Move the as_local filter so that it is applied to the variable last_changed the first two lines should be:
{% set last_changed = states.sensor.XXXX.last_changed | as_local %}
{%- set delta = (now() - last_changed).total_seconds() / 3600 %}
FYI, you guys can utilize today_at to make the template really easy to read without any fancy math.
{% set last_changed = states.binary_sensor.main_door.last_changed %}
{% if last_changed < today_at() - timedelta(days=1) %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('%A at %H:%M') }}
{% elif last_changed < today_at() %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('Yesterday at %H:%M') }}
{% else %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('Today at %H:%M') }}
{% endif %}
Wow… and I just finished modifying @finity 's to be:
{% set time = states('input_datetime.test_datetime_3') %}
{% set hrs = ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(time)) / 3600 ) | int %}
{% set mins = ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(time)) ) | timestamp_custom('%M') |int %}
{% if as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') ==
as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') %}
Today at {{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}
{% if hrs == 0 %}
({{ mins | int}} minute(s) ago)
{% elif hrs == 1 %}
({{ hrs | int}} hour ago)
{% else %}
({{ hrs | int}} hours ago)
{% endif %}
{% elif as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') ==
(as_timestamp(now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0)) - 3600)
| timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') %}
Yesterday at {{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}
{% elif as_timestamp(time) < as_timestamp(now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0)) - (3600 * 1)
and as_timestamp(now()) - 84600 * 7 < as_timestamp(time) %}
{{ as_timestamp(time) | timestamp_custom('%A at %H:%M') }}
{% else %}
More than a week ago
{% endif %}
adding the following lines:
{% set hrs = ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(time)) / 3600 ) | int %}
{% set mins = ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(time)) ) | timestamp_custom('%M') |int %}
{% if hrs == 0 %}
({{ mins | int}} minute(s) ago)
{% elif hrs == 1 %}
({{ hrs | int}} hour ago)
{% else %}
({{ hrs | int}} hours ago)
{% endif %}
I will try your code @petro right away 
Thanks Petro, this is great. Which Jinja reference would you recommend for learning and/or referencing such functions i.e. today_at()
The two links in the developer tools are always a good starting point.
I checked the ones at the HA Templates page… will re-check again though.
Much appreciate your advice. Thanks
Rami
I think this is what you’re looking for:
{% set last_changed = states.binary_sensor.main_door.last_changed %}
{% if last_changed < today_at() - timedelta(days=6) %}
More than a week ago
{% elif last_changed < today_at() - timedelta(days=1) %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('%A at %H:%M') }}
{% elif last_changed < today_at() %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('Yesterday at %H:%M') }}
{% else %}
{{ last_changed.strftime('Today at %H:%M') }} ({{ relative_time(last_changed) }} ago)
{% endif %}
Hi Petro,
May I trouble you with one last thing… I’ve trying to get it to work with no luck after several trial, I guess I need to do some intensive reading about States and Attributes.
What if instead of last changed attribute (which changes after each restart, I want to use an input_datetime helper to make it persistant over re-start… how can I insert this in your code.
It keeps giving me error either no attribute or can’t use < between strings and datetime.
Sorry for the inconvenience
States are always strings, so you will need to convert the state of the Input datetime helper to a offset-aware datetime object by replacing the first line of the template:
{% set last_changed = states('input_datetime.XXXX') | as_datetime | as_local %}
Thank you big time. I can now see what I did wrong… I had the as_local filter before the | as_datetime… makes perfect sense now and works flawlessly.
Much appreciated
RS
I’m trying to format elapsed time into something like ##d ##h ##m or ##:##:##
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime'))) | timestamp_custom('%dd %hh %mm') }}
Which gives me 31d Dech 12m off an epoch of ~9000 which should be more like 0d 2h 30m. What’s the proper syntax to depict elapsed time from 0 instead of the start of the epoch?
This will be formatted ddd hh:mm:ss
{{ now() - states('sensor.uptime') | as_datetime | as_local }}
If you want a custom format, you have to do the math.
Here’s the math laid out…
With all that Python/Jinja2 is capable of…is that really the most compact way to convert/format seconds into another timeframe?