Hi all, been looking for a way to do this for weeks now, tried many things. I have a solution with NodeRed, but I would love to accomplish this with HA only.
Goal: To enable a sensor from an automation
Ex: I have live sensors (pH, oxygen, EC) from Tasmota, sendinf MQTT values. Those sensors will be in 3 different liquids depending on some valve’s status (on/off). So, I’m trying to “enable” a sensor from an automation, only when a valve is open and after a few minutes.
So:
- Open valve 1
- wait 2min
- Enable those live sensors data to copy to new sensors ex:
- Live sensor: pH
- New sensor : pH_Valve1
- wait 2min
- disable the copy of live sensors to those _valve1 sensors.
In other words, I will have 3 sets of new sensors _ValveX, receiving values only when I enable them from an automation.
I know how to create a new sensor from an existing state. That’s OK, but how to control the “copy” of live data to this new sensor from an automation?
In NodeRed, I can copy MQTT message from the live sensor to a new sensor based on a switch state, but again, I’m trying to do all this in HA.
Hope it’s clear enough!
Thanks, Simon