Trying to make Humidity readings show in Apex chart. It did before

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Sorry for the noob question. I am also just finding the terminology.
“Entity” took a while :slight_smile:

I am attempting to set up a number of temp and humidity sensors around the house to test where to put my dehumidifier. I had started with MQTT before I was told about HA. Looks great. I woul like to have a graph showing how things change over time.

I am using Raspberry Pi Pico with SHT41 boards. I have the HA OS on a Pi4.

I have connected the Pico/sensors to the HA Pi. When I go to settings>devices>MQTT, I can see that the data of both is being receive by HA.
I have installed Apex charts cardd which looks amazing an just what I hoped for. I set it up an it was reading and displaying both temp an RH. I was looking forward to tinkering.

The next day, it only shows temp. I tried a few things.
I do not know if this is relevant, but undder “entities” it shows them as “Unmanageable”. From what I can find, it means that the name is not unique. I changed the names to “manky_Temperature” and “manky_Humidity” thinking it is unlikkely that there is already something in the syste. But nothing changes.

I am mostly confused why it worked and then did not.
Thank you.

type: custom:apexcharts-card
header:
  show: true
  title: ApexCharts-Card
  show_states: true
  colorize_states: true
series:
  - entity: sensor.manky_temperature
    type: line
  - entity: sensor.manky_humidity
    type: line
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That just means they were created in YAML without a unique_id. So they can’t be managed from the UI, only YAML. It is not the cause of your issue.

Go to Developer Tools → States and find sensor.manky_humidity. What is its state (first column)?

What are its attributes (right hand column)?

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Thank you for replying.
OK, that is good to know about “unmanageable”.

State is:

unknown

Attributes:

friendly_name: manky_Humidity
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Well that’s why you cant graph it.

Check Settings → System → Logs for errors related to this entity.

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Ah, right, thanks.
Ah, I see. When the sensor was unplugged, they both showed unknown. Now the sensor is plugged in, it shows the last reading for the temp, but not the humidity. Gotcha.

I cant see anything in the condensed log. Did a search for humidity in the main log.

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So, when i go into MQTT, it can still read the data when i tell it to listen.
So, the data is getting to HA. what next please?

Thanks again.