First question here, have been developing my Homeassistant now for about a year.
Great source of information, thank you all.
However one thing is driving me completely to distraction. Two days banging my head (Glaswegian, you get the picture)
I need to multiply a sensor by 1000 - simple huh, can I do it ? Not a stick of it.
Currently getting this error in logs.
ValueError: could not convert string to float: ‘’
I have a sensor created by SMA Energy Meter that is in Kw and am trying to create a sensor with the value in W. ( I want to do a wee subtraction later) first things first.
You should be using the new template integration for new sensors. The legacy template sensor platform is still supported but it is not getting new features.
I haven’t figured out the new thing yet. Probably as I haven’t figured out the old way.
I don’t want a big configuration.yaml, last time I tried to split it up everything stopped working. I want to !include what I want and not have to trawl through a whole bunch.
Just the way my mind works. Perhaps if I start of with it all in config and then split it out after. I find yaml not particularly intuitive, perhaps because of my lack of understanding.!
Thank you again. I also was able to “fix” it by changing the source to W as well !! duh me