snow tartan
Hi,
I have an entity card with:
`type: entity
entity: sensor.washing_machine_remaining_program_time
name: "Washing machine finished at:"
state_color: true
visibility:
Thanks!
dusty viper
Either with a Mushroom template card using a template of {{ as_datetime(states('sensor.washing_machine_remaining_program_time')).strftime('%H:%M') }} or a template sensor helper with the same template.
novel token
time_since is also useful for this I find
dusty viper
Yeah, but time_since()/time_until() gets weird with displaying multiple portions... so time_since(sensor, 2) could be 12 days 3 hours. Etc.
snow tartan
Thanks for the replies!
Like this?
It's showing unknown even though it should say 15:05
dusty viper
Yeah, but it looks like the single quote is wrong. Try removing the quotes and readding them. They get wonky coming out of discord sometimes.
Ugh. no
Remove the timestamp class
You just want a string.
novel token
yeah i normally only keep it to 1 when doing something like that , if it's at 12 days i don't care about hours ^^
snow tartan
Great thanks, but now it's showing the time in UTC (2 hours behind). What's the best way to solve this?
Thanks again
novel token
urggghhh timezonesss
novel token
try: {{ as_timestamp(states('sensor.washing_machine_remaining_program_time')) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}
dusty viper
I was told as_timestamp is a bad idea and as_local was a better solution.
novel token
good to know
dusty viper
-# Granted, I have that template ALL OVER THE PLACE...
snow tartan
Hmm shows as 'Unavailable'
dusty viper
Show a screencap again?
novel token
what if you just strip everything other than the states() bit
novel token
the latter
1 sec, brb ^^
OH
it's because your sensor is not returning a local time
it has a timezone of +00:00
snow tartan
Yeah, but home assistant seems to be aware somewhere, as the default entity card shows the correct time
(same sensor)
novel token
ok, back to testing...
{{ as_local(as_datetime(states('sensor.washing_machine_remaining_program_time'))).strftime('%H:%M') }}
snow tartan
Waheey, it worked. Thanks!
I see why the as_local wasn't working now
needed to be parsed to datetime
novel token
problem with datetimes, i hate it so much my brain forgets the information i learn every time i struggle with them, which means i hate them even more the next time as i need to remember why it works
