Better Thermostat with helper temperature sensor

[nocturne parrot]

Hello i want to use my homepod sensors as external sensors for better thermostat. I was able to send the values with the api and they show up as an entity. But i cant choose the entity in the better thermostat integration. I also tried creating a sensor template but i also cant choose that.

Any ideas?

[merry bay]

Did you make the sensor template a device type temperature and state class measurement?

[nocturne parrot]

mhh idk.
chatgpt gave me this.

sensor:

• platform: template
  sensors:
  homepod_neo_temp:
  friendly_name: "HomePod Neo Temperature"
  unit_of_measurement: "°C"
  value_template: "{{ states('sensor.some_temperature_sensor') | float }}"

the value template is wrong for sure i just wanted to see if i can choose it as an external sensor.

The top and bottom ones are the ones that are updated with the rest api

[merry bay]

So no then

Use the ui helpers

Will get things that actually work, unlike whatever nonsense chat gpt spits out

[merry bay]

Put {{ states('sensor.homepod_temperature') }} in the template bit

And give it a state class of measurement rather than total or total increasing

[nocturne parrot]

okay give me a sec i want to remove the old one so i dont get confused

okay it works nice. now the same with the humidity ig?

how do i get rid of this one?

@merry bay

[merry bay]

Why do you want to get rid of it?

[nocturne parrot]

thats an old one

ah now its gone

it worked then i changed names and now i dont see an entity id. i also cant delete them?

ah nvm just had to reload the web ui

@merry bay thank you for your help :)

[merry bay]

Np