Can you psot what your sensor configuration looks like. I am a complete puttz when it comes to coding but I am trying to understand. I appreciate your assistance very much.
Thankyou
Below is the contents of my uptime_sensor.yaml. It’s included in the configuration.yaml.
- platform: uptime
name: Uptime
- platform: template
sensors:
ha_uptime:
friendly_name: "Home Assistant uptime"
value_template: >-
{% set up_time = as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime')) %}
{% if up_time == 0 %}
Just restarted...
{% else %}
{% set minutes = (up_time // 60) | int %}
{% set hours = (minutes // 60) %}
{% set days = (hours // 24) %}
{% set weeks = (days // 7) %}
{% set minutes = (minutes % 60) %}
{% set hours = (hours % 24) %}
{% set days = (days % 7) %}
{% macro phrase(value, name) %}
{%- set value = value %}
{%- set end = 's' if value > 1 else '' %}
{{- '{} {}{}'.format(value, name, end) if value | int > 0 else '' }}
{%- endmacro %}
{% set text = [ phrase(weeks, 'week'), phrase(days, 'day'), phrase(hours, 'hr'), phrase(minutes, 'min') ] | select('!=','') | list | join(', ') %}
{% set last_comma = text.rfind(',') %}
{% if last_comma != -1 %}
{% set text = text[:last_comma] + ' and' + text[last_comma + 1:] %}
{% endif %}
{{ text }}
{% endif %}
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if you’re interested here is a streamlined version of that. Makes it easy to add or remove any unwanted values:
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Great work to get the uptime working again but as for the Automations this code is difficult to work with, at least for me. I need numeric states or at least integers but this is a string attribute.
This is what I’ve concluded works for me wanting to measure the uptime in minutes and evaluate a numeric state on the same:
#HASS uptime
- platform: uptime
name: Uptime
- platform: template
sensors:
uptimev2:
friendly_name: Uptimev2
value_template: >
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime'))) // 60|int }}
And then I evaluate the uptime based on the uptimev2 numeric state, for example between 2 and 3 minutes:
I need to ask …
This code works for you? In my case the sensor is not available du to an error of the calculation.
When I put this {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states(‘sensor.uptime’))) // 60|int }} to the dev tools I get the following error:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: ‘float’ and ‘NoneType’
Yes, it works. I had a look in my config file and I’ve apparently added another type of entity as well:
sensor:
#HASS uptime
- platform: uptime
name: Uptime
- platform: template
sensors:
uptimev2:
friendly_name: Uptimev2
value_template: >
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime'))) // 60|int }}
- platform: template
sensors:
home_assistant_uptime:
friendly_name: Home Assistant Uptime
value_template: >-
{% set up_time = as_timestamp(now())-as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime')) %}
{% set minutes = (up_time // 60)|int %}
{% set hours = minutes // 60 %}
{% set days = hours // 24 %}
{% set minutes = minutes % 60 %}
{% set hours = hours % 24 %}
{% set days = days % 7 %}
{% macro phrase(value,name) %}
{%- set value = value %}
{%- set end = 's' if value > 1 else '' %}
{{- '{} {}{}'.format(value,name,end) if value|int > 0 else '' }}
{%- endmacro %}
{% set text = [phrase(days,'day'),phrase(hours,'hour'),
phrase(minutes,'min')]
|select('!=','')|list|join(', ') %}
{% set last_comma = text.rfind(',') %}
{% if last_comma != -1 %}
{% set text = text[:last_comma] + ' and' + text[last_comma + 1:] %}
{% endif %}
{{text}}
Seems there are others with similiar errors and recommended checking the template editor for debugging but maybe that is what you’ve already tried?:
Yep. Other errors …
It was just a typo. What about AI? 
Hi, I have a question:
Is this still the correct way to get the uptime sensor?
sensor:
- platform: uptime
name: Time Online
Or should it follow the new template format?
template:
- sensor:
- name: "Server uptime"
state: ???
Thank you.
Yes, but isn’t it a template sensor? I feel that code follows the legacy sensor configuration format
no, where did you get the idea this is a template sensor? some of the others above are, but this is a core integration
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I see, thank you.
Here is how I would do it:
{{ states('sensor.ha_uptime') }}
{% set total_seconds = as_timestamp(utcnow())-as_timestamp(states('sensor.ha_uptime')) %}
{{ total_seconds }}
{% set days = (total_seconds / 86400) | int %}
{{ days }}
{% set hours = ((total_seconds % 86400) / 3600 ) | int %}
{{ hours }}
{% set minutes = ((total_seconds % 3600) / 60 ) | int %}
{{ minutes }}
{% set seconds = (total_seconds % 60) | int %}
{{ seconds }}
{{ [days, hours, minutes, seconds]|join(':') }}
You can cut & paste this in to developer templates and you should get something like this:
if you want a nicer state than the uptime sensor, why not use the template sensor posted above somewhere:
template:
- sensor:
- unique_id: ha_uptime_phrase
name: Ha uptime phrase
icon: mdi:history
state: >-
{%- set up = now().timestamp()-as_timestamp(states('sensor.uptime')) %}
{%- macro phrase(name,divisor,mod=None) %}
{%- set value = ((up//divisor) % (mod if mod else divisor))|int %}
{%- set end = 's' if value > 1 else '' %}
{{- '{} {}{}'.format(value,name,end) if value|int > 0 else ''}}
{%- endmacro %}
{%- set values = [phrase('week',60*60*24*7),
phrase('day',60*60*24,7),
phrase('hour',60*60,24),
phrase('min',60),
phrase('sec',1,60)]
|select('!=','')|list %}
{{values[:-1]|join(', ') ~ ' and ' ~ values[-1] if values|length > 1 else
values|first}}
That output is basically identical to a timedelta as a string.
{{ utcnow() - states('sensor.ha_uptime') | as_datetime | default(utcnow()) }}
You overwrote total_seconds with a time from 2 days ago, so your as_timestamp calc has a difference of 2 days. OP is asking for days hours and minutes, not seconds. So in that regard, they are both wrong. Either way, this is the real difference (without incorrectly overwriting the difference)
DUH! Missed changing yours. Sorry for the stupidity.
This might be an old post, but I solved this via:
sensor:
- platform: uptime
template:
- sensor:
- name: Uptime Relative
state: >-
Up {{ states("sensor.uptime") | as_datetime | relative_time }}
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