#Zigbee + aqara smart plug recategorizing diagnostic as sensor

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jolly ginkgo
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I'm using zigbee2mqtt with an Aqara smart plug. I have an automation set up to turn off my e-bike's charger when power consumption drops below 15W (because that indicates that it is done charging). However, I'd really like to actually see the power consumption on my dashboard, but I currently can't because it is a "diagnostic" rather than a "sensor". Does anyone know how I could change Power to be treated as a sensor instead?

gray lantern
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I'm just guessing because I don't have a device that reports like this, but if "Diagnostic" is an attribute you can make a template sensor that transforms it into a sensor you can use. Check out #templates-archived

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So I looked a couple other devices and battery shows up as "diagnostics" but when I look in developer tools for those they're sensors

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odd. what does the entity show up as?

wanton fjord
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Sounds like you might want or need to make a pull request to tweak the configuration of that device. Or, perhaps there's a sensor that's disabled in HA that you can enable?

jolly ginkgo
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Cool, a template seems like a good stopgap. In the meantime, yeah, I’ll try to see where in z2m this is being made into a diagnostic. It’s strange because the device doesn’t even report energy, it reports power—I think zigbee2mqtt is integrating it to get energy.