Sir, you have opened my mind to new ideas! I've seen the dryer power monitor before and it's on my list of to-dos, but you have me thinking about it differently. Thank you! I feel better prepared to get started.
Excellent Tutorial. I'm an experienced coder but a noob to Home Assistant so I needed some help to get over the first hurdles in a new interface and language. This was exactly what I needed. I'll be watching your whole series when I have time. Thanks.
Thank you for making this video. I'm a programmer by day, but a lot of the explanations around custom sensors seemed as clear as mud until I found your video. This breaks it down and explains it very clearly. You have saved me a lot of future headache, thank you so much for the simple and concise explanation!
1000 times Thank you!! Being new to this is overwhelming but you helped greatly!! I made a simple little sensor to show whether I'm home or not... it's a start to bigger and better things :)
@@SmartHomeMakers Not sure how to or if I even can format code here but here it is.... VERY simple LOL I made that sensor that's called john_presence and put it in my sensor dir [which is included in my config.yaml] - platform: template sensors: john_presence: friendly_name: John presence value_template: >- {% if is_state('device_tracker.sm_f926u1', 'not_home') %} John's Out {% else %} John's In {% endif %}
@@SmartHomeMakers did not know that!!! Thank you!! I will try that too. What I was really trying to do was show a picture and have it change when I wasn't home.....but that's been a bit over my head :)
Thanks for the tutorial, really nicely explained. I wish there was entities ID autocomplete in this editor, just like in VS Code. Would make playing around it so much easier.
Thanks for the video. I got it to work with a Sonoff S31PM by using {% if state_attr('switch.sonoff_s31pm', 'power') == 0 %} in place of what you were using.
Excellent! I had no idea what templating was! I actually had made one months ago I think, made a switch and a contact sensor into a cover(garage door). But you explanation of those crazy brackets was super helpful, last time I did any programming was in the early 80’s and it was the Basic language, so I’m pretty much less than zero on programming knowledge. Thanks a bunch!
Very clear and much obliged. Only struggle here is to make the outcome of the if/else a trigger for an automation. I.e. if status dryer changes from standby to drying: send me a message or whatever action needed.
Thanks for all the work and time you have given us. I was not able to use the term state. When I went looking on other sites I found a different way of creating sensor as follows - platform: template sensors: quickpot: friendly_name: 'fastcook' value_template: > {% if states("sensor.dishwasher_energy_current") | float == 0 %} OFF {% elif states("sensor.dishwasher_energy_current") | float
Enjoying your video's! Very helpful! HOWEVER, I missed the part where the "sensor.tumble_dryer_power" entity came from. Did you define it as part of the Shelly1PM? I'm currently only using esp's.
You have just solved me another problem …. just one question left: how do you describe a value between two values let’s say „if sensor value is>= 40 but
Setting up an automation for our dryer is the one thing I've been unable to do so far. I live in the U.S. and we have the funky plugs for our dryers, so using a normal power monitor smart plug won't work. I've heard of Shelly before, do you have a link to the one you used? I know Shelly offers some products here in the US, so hopefully I can get one that will work.
Thanks Gio, a great video on templates! Much needed as I expand my use cases in HAS. By chance do you have a video that returns a specific entity that triggered an automation? For example I have 5 smoke sensors and I want my notification to return the specific sensor that triggered the automation. Thank you!
Hi Oystein! Yes you could, want would you use it for? Like an automation to turn off the device once it reached a certain power level? Not sure how practical on a family basis that could be :)
@@SmartHomeMakers Nice. I simply want to see daily consumption of my smart plugs etc. As they are out of the box, they only show current consumption and total consumption as far as I can tell. Even in the energy dashboard. Sure, the individually monitored nodes show the daily consumption, but not when I click on one of them; then they show just the total consumption. Which in reality tells nothing at all
Hello and congratulations for the home assistant videos, I need help on the dryer status template. How can I insert a delay that if it is under 6 w for 10 seconds is it stanbay?
@@SmartHomeMakers Hello,no in this sensor, put a 10 second delay before the dryer gives me standby - sensor: - name: stati asciugatrice state: > {% if states("sensor.tz3000_gjnozsaz_ts011f_active_power")|float == 0 %} off {% elif states("sensor.tz3000_gjnozsaz_ts011f_active_power")|float
Thank you for this, I have searched for any syntax documentation for creating templates and have had to rely on looking at other users code for clues, can you point at such documentation? For example I first thought to use a case statement rather than if but can’t find if one is available for use! I also found that I could just update templates rather than restarting HA, saved a ton of time with my many errors and restarts. Thanks for what you are doing to help us all!
I find the same, it's hard to figure out the prefix etc. It would be nice if there was a homeassistant examples cheat sheet trying to relate to the jinja documents is hard
thanks for the tutorial! i'm getting this error, any idea what is going wrong here? 'float' got invalid input 'unknown' when rendering template '{% if states("sensor.dryer_power")|float == 0 %} Off {% elif states("sensor.dryer_power")|float
I am trying to evaluate the last notification on my phone whether it contains a list of words and if NOT contain any of the specified words then it should update the sensor. What is the best way to write this code?
I followed this video to a T. My template works within the generator but every line of code throws back an error. As soon as i write the word template: i cant seem to correct it at all.
You create the code in templates but then you don't use that when you're typing the code into the config yaml so I am confused. I have got my code in the template but what do i do with that? I cannot see why you do that first as you just create some different code in the config yaml
@@SmartHomeMakers Thanks for the reply. I honestly cant remember the exact circumstances on what I was trying to do. This was when I was first learning Home Assistant. I was trying to do something but was getting an error since there was no unique ID. I obviously found a workaround and most likely a better way than I was thinking. I just cant remember what...
Thanks for the great video! I'm using Developer Tools, Template But, I'm stuck here is my code: ``` (% if states("number.humidifier_target_level") == 55 %) off (% else %) on (% endif %) ``` I am getting this error: This template does not listen for any events and will not update automatically. I have checked the States and it shows 55. Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA
@@SmartHomeMakers But I have one question left … what is the command if you want a range for the sensor …. ie between 40 and 50 … In you’re sample, you just covered 1 value i.e. one value …. how about between 2 values ?
@@SmartHomeMakers Got this error; The following integrations and platforms could not be set up: template Please check your config and logs. Logger: homeassistant.config Source: config.py:464 First occurred: 1:27:53 PM (1 occurrences) Last logged: 1:27:53 PM Invalid config for [template]: expected dictionary for dictionary value @ data['sensors']. Got [OrderedDict([('name', 'Washing Machine'), ('state', '{% if states("sensor.washer_power")|float
@@SmartHomeMakers Yea, left aligned with no spaces. "Check Config" says valid and restart happens without issues. But just dont see the new sensor. Thanks.
HEy whenever i do the check i get a config invalid for Integration error: name - Integration 'name' not found. Integration error: platform - Integration 'platform' not found. Integration error: host - Integration 'host' not found. i have no errors on my code and it is exactly the same as yours other than the name ( i am running mine for the washer right now)
@@SmartHomeMakers Sadly had to rebuild my whole home assistant install (backups wouldn't restore for some reason_ so just had to do it all again....... but this time went way faster lol
Man, i use HA since 2018 and some of my automation using template by copy cat, i just understand the logic of the code with this tutorial. How poor my knowledge. Thanks so much
