Washing machine, living on its own?

[Edwin_D]

This is a nice approach too. I was trying to keep as close as possible to the original approach to best illustrate possible improvements.

But maybe you should adjust the filters in your example because of the now required default. For expample the float filter should now be something like float(0). If you do not, the templates will produce errors on startup.

I would also consider adding an availability template to the sensor.

Updating Templates with the new default values in 2021.10.x

I keep seeing the same question about the new default argument for the templating. This post will cover all possible ways to define default. All the methods that were changed: acos as_timestamp asin atan atan2 cos float log round sin sqrt strptime tan timestamp_custom timestamp_local timestamp_utc Each of them have the exact same default functionality but a different number of arguments. There are multiple ways to use these functions, and this is where all the confusion lies. Understandi…