WTH - Template Helpers in the UI

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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Hi

I often use templates for simple conversions or alternations to sensors, etc. A good example is my UPS returns up time in seconds however for notifications and UI purposes minutes is much more useful. I therefore have a simple template sensor defined:

    server_ups_time_remaining_calc:
      friendly_name: Server UPS Time Remaining Calculated
      icon_template: mdi:timer-outline
      unit_of_measurement: m
      value_template: '{{ float(states("sensor.serverups_battery_runtime")) / 60  }}'

It would be great if these could be managed in the UI maybe in the ‘helpers’ section.

David

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Closing this one as a duplicate of WTH can’t template sensors be made in UI

Please vote on that one instead.

…/Frenck