Unable to delete Template Sensor Helper

[psfshr (Paul Fisher)]

In experimenting, and possibly not understanding what I was doing, I’ve created a Template Sensor helper (via the UI) to do a quick calculation on another sensor and return a new value (specifically how long ago a sensor updated).\

I now no longer need the helper, but I can’t delete it! On other helpers I have there’s a delete option, but on this one, nothing, only an option to “Submit” in the bottom right corner.

Without resorting to hacking config around, how can I delete this helper?

[Azertooth]

choose an action set on value, save the changes and then you can delete it

[Dosch]

In my case the delete option was also missing.
This was my workaround:

Template sensors are still there after they are being removed

Solution for my case: Problem I deleted the entries in config.yaml, but the template sensors remained (for several month), even after above mentioned pruges. The sensors were shown in UI “Helpers”, the entity-id was empty. I could not delete these entities in UI, because no delete button was shown. My Workaround: I could add a device to these sensors in the UI (I did use a speaker). I opened the device in settings/device, where on this speaker I had a link for the template integration. The…