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I have a bunch of power plugs that send power usage to Home Assistant. I have a Helper in Home Assistant that sums all of those power plugs usage. Trouble is, of any plug is offline for any reason, then the helper records unknown, and I miss all of that data. Is there any better way to do this? Is it possible to have a helper that sums what it has instead of expecting all items? Should I do this a different way?
Thanks
pliant lintel
I thought that there was a way to tell it what to do with entities that don't have a numeric value, but you can do it in a template sensor:
{{['sensor.one', 'sensor.two']|select('has_value')|map('states')|map('float')|sum}}
or
{{['sensor.one', 'sensor.two']|map('states')|map('float', 0)|sum}}
scarlet bough
Sensor groups can do sum and ignore unavailable, but min_max can also do sum and does not have this feature.
Kinda confusing that there are two helpers that do this 😬
scarlet bough
Also for some reason it's part of options flow but not config flow
So when you set it up you can't see the option
and have to go back to it
pliant lintel
I also thought about that in the "combine sensors" helper, but couldn't find it in the options flow either
scarlet bough
combine sensors is min/max