Ed, you are just amazing !!!! The structure of your videos and use cases examples allow your followers to visualize many options and opportunities to apply your points to infinite possibilities. THANK YOU 🙏
Ok I'm no noob when it comes to this kinda thing (but kinda new to HASS). After reading several articles, blogs, forums... I could not figure out how to get an asset to show "online" instead of "home". 5 minutes skipping through this 30 minute video and it's done. Simple as anything! Explained exceptionally well at every step and leaves nothing to be unsure about. Perfect example a good how to guide! Thanks for the time and effort you put into this!
Thank you for these great videos. I'm learning a lot from them. Just to give back a little for the others when only one light is on the grammar is not correct :D Use this code for the primary info and it will be correct: {% if states('sensor.number_lights_on')|int==0 %} All lights are off! {% elif states('sensor.number_lights_on')|int==1 %} 1 light on {% else %} {{states('sensor.number_lights_on')}} lights on {% endif %}
This has helped me achieve what I've been struggling with for a long time. This has also confirmed to me that I CANNOT change the battery icon color based on percentage in a Mushroom Chips card! I had wasted already too much time on that. Thank you!
You definately van change the icon color in a chips card based on a value of a sensor. For instance : - type: template entity: input_boolean.mail_arrived icon: | {% if is_state('input_boolean.mail_arrived', 'on') %} mdi:mailbox {% else %} mdi:mailbox-open-up-outline {% endif %} icon_color: |- {% if is_state('input_boolean.mail_arrived', 'on') %} yellow {% else %} grey {% endif %} hold_action: action: none double_tap_action: action: call-service service: input_boolean.toggle service_data: {} target: entity_id: input_boolean.mail_arrived tap_action: action: none
Excellent tutorial. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for NOT assuming anything and going step by step. So many videos I watch leave out so much. This is the second video of yours I have watched in 3 days; I am now subscribed 😊.
Great tutorial about templates and Mushroom Cards. Thank you! I just want to add add that you can avoid duplicating code in the Mushroom Template Card and make it more reusable. When you have allready assigned value to the Entity property in you card you can use it elsewhere, for example in definition of icon: instead of {{state_attr ('sensor.battery_status_kitchen', 'icon')}} you can write {{state_attr (entity, 'icon')}} Additionally, it makes the code easier to maintain and less error prone.
Great! When you watch one of me latest videos, you'll see that I use a different (modern) way of working with template sensors and the templates.yaml. I use that for instance in the garden watering video. It's even better if you store your templates like that, but this way of using it is also supported, so you should be fine.
I've put off learning about templates for a long time. This helped me understand more. Thanks. I wish all your code in this video was in the ko-fi text file and not just the custom sensor code.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I'm thinking about the code you paste into the card configuration at 27:57. I love copy and paste. Don't have to worry about typos when you paste. :-)
I've been struggling with icon templates for 2 days straight, but after seeing your vid here it all makes PERFECT sense and everything is working great! Thank you!! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much! I've been getting myself in a right mess with this template stuff and you have made it so clear and simple. You've just gained another subscriber. Thank you again!
Thankyou for another wonderful adventure into Home Assistant. I figure you might be a bit of a mind reader as I was currently having fun in this area. For me I took a different approach to counting lights as I had a ZHA and Helpers groups for various lamps with multiple bulbs, which I wanted to count as a single light. So I created a 'List' and looped through it {% set lights_down = [states.light.bar_lamp,states.light.dining_dimmer] %}{{ lights_down | selectattr('state','eq','on') | list | count }}. This returns a count of 2 even though there are actually 3 lights. Then I ensured it was a Binary Sensor so I could test on On/Off with attribute of count (binary_sensor: !include binary_sensor.yaml).
Thank you for all those videos, I'm a beginner and I'm french speaking but your english and the structure of your videos make it easy to understand and to learn how to use this great HA. Thank you so much for this incredible work !
Whenever you release a new videos I start juggling around my HA setup. I think in the back of my mind I have of lots of ideas and when you dive in great detail it brings those things in my head to the forefront. Your expressive nature, detail and clarity make for a great experience. Thank you. 👍
Ed, bravo as usual! I have a quick tip to share.... At 22:07 you're forced to scroll horizontally to show the code. To avoid this scenario in future videos, click the top header (where, in this case, it says "Entities Card Configuration"). That will make the window expand horizontally to the full width of your screen. A perfect solution for scenarios like this :) Thanks as always. Your videos are an tremendous help. Cheers from Kansas City!
Great, your channel is a must for new and experienced HA coders! Copied the light counter and it worked directly 👍 Any chance you could do a counter for switches and not the least counter for entities not available? Cheers
This was by far the easiest way to explain this - Thank You! For the lights state is there a way to use state.light but sort for a group that you have created?
Thanks Ed, 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!
Is in de maak. Woensdag verandert het hele configuration menu met de nieuwe release, dus ik wil die nieuwe video nog even aanpassen zodat hij aangepast is aan het nieuwe menu. Duurt dus nog even.
Hi This was a great tutorial and I implemented it a year ago But recently I noticed that it was showing a wrong total. After a bit of searching, I found the cause I had installed 3 new Reolink cameras and it was picking up the camera infra-red lights entities and adding them to the total these are exposed by the Reolink integration. I just 'piped a -3' in the Mushroom card on the dashboard and fixed the problem as I considered that the counting was not wrong but the display was including 3 lights that were not really visible as lights.
Love your videos, enjoy the multiple things you cover to make my HA so much more! As a noob I tried to use the code you provided, but had issues when copying it into config and templates. Not sure where I went wrong. Will continue to investigate and see if I can get it working.
Thanks Alfonso, I didn't experience any memory problems yet. But you can also use templates and custom sensors without using a HACS integration. I just used these two HACS frontend integration to make the tutorial more visual attractive.
Not sure. I do not use ZHA myself currently. You'd have to investigate which attributes are unique for ZHA groups and exclude entities that contain that attribute or attribute value.
awesome video, as always.... I do have a question though. how would you go about, if I had to change the light sensor to door sensor and identify how many doors (windows in my case) are open and give me a message exactly which window is open? I'd appreciate it if you could give me some hints, guidance etc... Thanks!
Hi, Thank you for all the tips you are giving us, they are very useful. I'm having problem trying to set the icon for my sensor.value for the weather [current.condition] . The problem is related to the weather list based on the weather condition [ int ] that I cannot find anywhere other than in English. . Fx: I'm using a French UI I'd like to make sure I have the good translation to the current condition or even better the integer values to the current states as below in my languages. Is there is a particular place when the entire list of weather condition are available? [ int ] : Terms 3 : Cloudy (English) 3 : Nuageux (French) thank you for
Great Video, Still digesting it though. Any change you can do a video on how to create this custom weather card with animated icons? or give me some pointers...
Hello Ed, is it possible for you to create a tutorila o9n how to install Home Assistant on a VMware virtual machine? I'm enjoying your informative how to's. Thank you
Hi Ed! Again nice video's, please continue with the great work. I followed this video and was interested in the section: number of lights that were on. Have just two questions/problems to solve: 1. I tried to do this and added a line in configuration.yaml and created the sensors.yaml (and rebooted afterwards), but at the developer [status], i cannot find the entity with friendly name. (in your video around 19min.) Configuration.yaml (end of the file I wrote): sensor: !include sensors.yaml Sensors.yaml I wrote: #### Count number of lights on ############################### - platform: template sensors: number_lights_on: friendly_name: Aantal Lampen Aan value_template: >- {{ states.light | rejectattr('attributes.is_Axis_group', 'eq', true) | rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined') | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | list | count }} icon_template: mdi:lightbulb-group 2. I have several Axis cam's and think he is also calculating the infrared lights. Do i have to make this line: | rejectattr('attributes.is_Axis_group', 'eq', true) --> or just fill in the brandname AXIS? I tried all, but when i have the IR of one of the Axis fixed on ON, it will still calculate it to the totals. How can i exclude those? Because the attributes Axis or similar doesn't seem to work. Hope you can advise me to this. Thanks and greetings. Richard
Hi. ! great job. A complex argument made easy. Anyway I've a question for you that I've posted on the HA forum but without any useful reply . I’ve an ESP32 device connected to HA via BLE. The ESP32 is in deep sleep for the most of the time and , perodically, say 3 secs every minute, it is awake. When it is awake it sends the value on a specific pin (say pin 34) tha can be low or high. I’d like that on the HA dashboard will be an “indicator” (a sort of LED) that when the value on the pin 34 is High will be ON and remain ON even when the ESP32 goes to deep sleep. The led must go from ON to OFF (and remain OFF) only when, in the next awake interval, the value on the ESP32 pin change from High to LOW. In other words, I need of a sort of memory that need an high, momentary, value to set ON (and remain ON) and a low, momentary pulse to set OFF (and remain OFF). Have you ever faced anything like ? Thanks in advance.
Another great video. I’ve learnt a lot of the basic stuff in HA so this is my next learning curve. It looks simple enough but I will but some paracetamol just in case😂💊
Hi. Battery status template all ok till creating dashboard card. No Icon showing. This happens with the custom mushroom template card. Here is my icon code {{state_attr('sensor.battery_status_front_door_lock','icon') }}. Is this correct? Many thanks.
Another great video from SMJ, I would like to see future videos about Mushroom cards, like example how to create "Mushroom Chips Card" that showing count of lights with state "on" based on "Custom: Auto Entities Card. Thx
Tanks, but why based on auto entities card? It's not needed to determine the number of lights that are on. You can just count all the light entities like how I do it in this video. But I might miss what you are meaning exactly.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Reason why I said that I would like to see count on lights with states "on" to be based on previously built custom auto entities card because that I have lights with switch domain and I have exclude entities that are not lights. After I adjusted custom auto entities card I was think that will be easier way the count option base on that card. I agree that way that you educate us through the your video is totaly acceptable and I will go that way. Thanks for your dedicated work.
@@adnanhukic1974 since the latest version of Home Assistant, you can show a switch as a light and HA will count that switch as a light of you indicated that in the entity settings of that switch.
I just subscribed, awesome material; if it's possible next time check/change your Mic, a lot of background noise in the video, everything else was really good
Awesome, just implemented the number of lights template and mushroom card too, this is great! I really want to know now though, how is your "All Lights" button (at 25:49) implemented? I really want to have an All Lights Off button on my dashboard!
Great tutorial. The Number Lights ON entity is used in my mushroom chips card where the entities are shown at the top of the dashboard. Can I use the code for the icon color change there? Been trying to it seems not possible.
This copes with removing light groups of either HA or Hue flavour {% set exclude = ["light.not_to_be_counted","light.another_not_to_be_counted"] %} {{ states.light | rejectattr('entity_id','in', exclude ) | selectattr('attributes.is_hue_group','undefined') | selectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'undefined') | selectattr('state','eq','on') | list | count }}
just amazing!!!! one question how I can use the templates in esphome. for example wind direction, I have an esp32 adc pin reading voltage divider array, I want an esp32 to send different states depending on the reading. for example, if the reading is 3v then north, 2.8v east, 2.5v west, 2v south, 1.7 v northeast, and so on. code is working in the template editor after watching your video, it displays the direction according to the voltages. but I have no idea how to use it with esphome so that esp32 can send that state to home assistant. maybe I have to make a custom sensor with a platform template in esphome code but I can't figure out how. the project is a weather station and I want to send the state of wind direction to the home assistant. i really appreciate your help. thank you
@@SmartHomeJunkiehi i think i figure it out but I didn't try it, I just read the documentation and I think I got it, but I try it tomorrow if I got it work I'll let you know and also I can help you for your next video, but really your video helped me to learn templates. Thank you
Ok, been using the "number of lights" template for a couple of months and have it on my dashboard. It's pretty cool. But now that I know that X number of lights are on, how can I get it to list which lights it found? That's what I want to know now!
for those having issues with the icons not showing up in the custom:template-entity-row, there's a current bug in github repo of the template-entity-row custom card about icons not properly displaying after 2023.2.x update, checking the solution in the github issue might help. happy hacking!
I am thinking of putting a Home Assistant in my RV so that I can monitor temps and a cameras. We have a need to leave the dogs behind and want to make sure they are quiet and not too hot. I currently have a Home Assistant at home. Have you done any videos on multiple instances of HA ??
@@RobFahndrich1 No, I did not, but it shouldn't be a problem to have multiple HA instances. I have two myself in my house. One for testing and one production instance.
This is really cool! is it also possible for 2 motion sensors to become one ? for instance it turns on when one or the other gets triggered and only turns of when both stop detecting motion
Hello, I've enjoyed your tutorial. I'm trying to build a template that gives me the answer to the following questions : Is there motion in the house and if so, where is the motion ? Any idea how this would look like ?
Interesting use case. I think it might be easier to use the auto-entities card from HACS to create this. I'd have to think about how to create a template sensor for this. 🤔
@@SmartHomeJunkie thank you for your quick reply. Another one, that comes to mind is related to door sensors and curtain switches. I'm now thinking in the direction of using NR to populate an input boolean and effectively the auto-entities card (which I never used)
Unfortunately, I do not have these cards on my own dashboard anymore :(, so I's have to rewrite the code. I will do that as soon as I find the time for this.
Excellent! I have used it to derive the difference between two temperature sensors and tell my ceiling fan to turn on when the difference is greater than 5deg. For some reason the difference is sometimes reported to 6 decimal places though! How would I get it to display to just one decimal place? Thanks so much for your great videos. {{ states('sensor.inside_temperature')float - states('sensor.rm_pro_temperature')|float }}
Hello, your vidéo made me jumping into the yaml world. Thank you. I have a question : do template generated sensors can be used in automations via the GUI ? Or do i have to write my own automation in yaml too ? 😉
@@SmartHomeJunkie that's why i was asking...my sensor don't show up in the list. HA was complaining about unique_id not set, but i fixed it. But still no sensor available
@@SmartHomeJunkie My mistake...i was trying to chose from the device menu for trigger, wrong method 😉. Works a lot better with state value change as a trigger. Problem solved. Thanks again
Ed, perfect tutorial. but when I try to enter settings I get this: This entity ('sensor.entities_count') does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more detail.
Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while parsing a block mapping in "/config/sensors.yaml", line 205, column 5 expected , but found '' in "/config/sensors.yaml", line 207, column 7@@SmartHomeJunkie
I have a sensor: “sensor.solveien_total_lifetime_energy_output_2”. This sensor counts lifetime kWh produced by my solar panels. I like to make two new sensors that gets it value from the “solveien_total_lifetime_energy_output_2” sensor. The two new sensors need to be updated with new values, once each month, day 1 at 00:00:01, and the second sensor need to be updated once a year, January 1. at 00:00:01. The monthly sensor can be named: growatt_lifetime_mnd_value The yearly sensor can be named: growatt_lifetime_year_value Do you have a tutorial covering such topics in how to make?
Alweer een fijne video van je ! Die template-entity-row kende ik nog niet 👌 Een vraagje/opmerking : ik dacht begrepen te hebben dat het gebruik van sensor.yaml afgeraden wordt en je deze zaken nu in templates.yaml moet stoppen... ? Voordeel is alvast dat je de templates afzonderlijk kunt herladen zonder HA te moeten heropstarten.
Ziehier de link : www.home-assistant.io/integrations/template/#legacy-binary-sensor-configuration-format En daar lees je dus dit : For old sensor/binary sensor configuration format, see below.
Thank you very much for taking time to explain... you've helped me a lot ! I was wondering how to get the number of low battery devices ? I tried to duplicate the template removing unecessary lines but it doesn't work. I tried to create another template sensor with a template {{ 'Low Battery Devices' | count | int }} without success... Is there another way we can get it ?
@@SmartHomeJunkie I made the comment at the wrong place… it was supposed to refer to the video you ask me to watch ! But this video explains how to make a list, not to get the number of sensors involved. Tried to duplicate code with a « count » function. Tried to make a new sensor with a count of the original one. But none works. I’ll investigate further more.
Found it out ! Just reworked the code in the other video. Kept the beginning until {%- endfor -%} followed by a simple {{ ns.sensors | count }} Now I will make a button with a green icon if everything is ok and a red mdi-battery-alert with a label stating the number of low battery devices . Click on that button will (If I manage to do it) open a popup with the list as you explained. That will be a great user interface I think... Thanks a lot ! 😉
Beste Smart Home Junkie, Heel hartelijk dank voor alle leerzame videos'. Ik krijg de lightcounter niet aan de praat en dat ligt denk ik met name aan het feit dat ik een conbee stick gebruik en geen deconz. Daardoor is de sensor niet goed. Als ik een deel van de sensor weghaal waarbij de "rejectattr' in staat werkt het wel alleen dan telt hij ook de groupen. Zou je mij een duwtje in de goede richting willen geven hoe dit op te lossen? Een voorbeeld van een van de groepen die ik gebruik is als volgt: light.dresden_elektronik_conbee_ii_bijkeuken_lampen_zha_group_0x0004 Bij voorbaat veel dank!!
{{ state_attr('sensor.bathroom_sensor_temperature','temperature') }} Result type: string shows as None. Any idea what may have caused this, is something wrong with the code? thank you
You are one of the best Home Assistant teachers on UA-cam
Thank you Mark! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Finally someone who made a step-by-step guide to make a light count for us newcomers! Thank you!
You'r the best to explain the custem sensors as well. In my mothers tongue nobody can do that. thx
Thank you!
Great tutorial, after spending hours on trial & (many) error based on Google results, your video was finally an eye-opener. Many thx
Ed, you are just amazing !!!! The structure of your videos and use cases examples allow your followers to visualize many options and opportunities to apply your points to infinite possibilities. THANK YOU 🙏
Thank you for this BIG compliment 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you so much from France! You helped build my first sensors. I've been struggling with this for 2 months. I'm very grateful!
That's great to hear!
Ok I'm no noob when it comes to this kinda thing (but kinda new to HASS). After reading several articles, blogs, forums... I could not figure out how to get an asset to show "online" instead of "home". 5 minutes skipping through this 30 minute video and it's done. Simple as anything!
Explained exceptionally well at every step and leaves nothing to be unsure about. Perfect example a good how to guide! Thanks for the time and effort you put into this!
Thank you for your compliments!
You are like Angel, thank you I see you video at the right moment for my use cases. Thank U so much❤
Thank you for these great videos. I'm learning a lot from them. Just to give back a little for the others when only one light is on the grammar is not correct :D Use this code for the primary info and it will be correct:
{% if states('sensor.number_lights_on')|int==0 %}
All lights are off!
{% elif states('sensor.number_lights_on')|int==1 %}
1 light on
{% else %}
{{states('sensor.number_lights_on')}} lights on
{% endif %}
Thank you for the concise & thorough explanation of templates, makes it much easier to understand and follow. Great work!
Thank you.
Sharing your knowledge in such a friendly and well explained way is really appreciated.
Great tutorial. I've been using HA for a few years and finally feel confident enough to write my own templates. 💚
This has helped me achieve what I've been struggling with for a long time.
This has also confirmed to me that I CANNOT change the battery icon color based on percentage in a Mushroom Chips card! I had wasted already too much time on that. Thank you!
You definately van change the icon color in a chips card based on a value of a sensor. For instance :
- type: template
entity: input_boolean.mail_arrived
icon: |
{% if is_state('input_boolean.mail_arrived', 'on') %}
mdi:mailbox
{% else %}
mdi:mailbox-open-up-outline
{% endif %}
icon_color: |-
{% if is_state('input_boolean.mail_arrived', 'on') %}
yellow
{% else %}
grey
{% endif %}
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: call-service
service: input_boolean.toggle
service_data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.mail_arrived
tap_action:
action: none
@@SmartHomeJunkie wow, thank you. I really have to sit down and have a look carefully
One of the best video I have watched in a long time that showed me exactly what I have been looking for, for over a week.
Thank you.
Thank you for this compliment! 🙏🏻
yours is perfect. These are going to takes loads of ti off the learning process.
Very nice tutorial again, the way you teach/instruct. Awesome. Thank you!
Excellent tutorial. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for NOT assuming anything and going step by step. So many videos I watch leave out so much. This is the second video of yours I have watched in 3 days; I am now subscribed 😊.
Sei bravissimo, insegni concetti complicati rendendoli semplici.. Bravo!! 😊
Grazie per questo complimento!
Great tutorial about templates and Mushroom Cards. Thank you!
I just want to add add that you can avoid duplicating code in the Mushroom Template Card and make it more reusable.
When you have allready assigned value to the Entity property in you card you can use it elsewhere, for example in definition of icon:
instead of {{state_attr ('sensor.battery_status_kitchen', 'icon')}}
you can write {{state_attr (entity, 'icon')}}
Additionally, it makes the code easier to maintain and less error prone.
That's a great addition. I wasn't aware of that. Thx! 👍🏻
This was exactly what I needed to learn , I had created a working template but had no idea how to integrate it to my frontend. THANK YOU !!
Great! When you watch one of me latest videos, you'll see that I use a different (modern) way of working with template sensors and the templates.yaml. I use that for instance in the garden watering video. It's even better if you store your templates like that, but this way of using it is also supported, so you should be fine.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the info. I'm still new to HA so learning all the different ways to do things is great. Going to check that video now :)
I've put off learning about templates for a long time. This helped me understand more. Thanks. I wish all your code in this video was in the ko-fi text file and not just the custom sensor code.
What code are you missing exactly? The test code that I show in the developer tools? Maybe you can join on my Discord server so that I can help you.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I'm thinking about the code you paste into the card configuration at 27:57. I love copy and paste. Don't have to worry about typos when you paste. :-)
@@vidarg75 I will look at it!
I've been struggling with icon templates for 2 days straight, but after seeing your vid here it all makes PERFECT sense and everything is working great! Thank you!! ❤❤❤
That is so great to hear!!!
Thank you so much! I've been getting myself in a right mess with this template stuff and you have made it so clear and simple. You've just gained another subscriber. Thank you again!
Thank you for your support Martin. 👍🏻
Thankyou for another wonderful adventure into Home Assistant.
I figure you might be a bit of a mind reader as I was currently having fun in this area. For me I took a different approach to counting lights as I had a ZHA and Helpers groups for various lamps with multiple bulbs, which I wanted to count as a single light.
So I created a 'List' and looped through it {% set lights_down = [states.light.bar_lamp,states.light.dining_dimmer] %}{{ lights_down | selectattr('state','eq','on') | list | count }}. This returns a count of 2 even though there are actually 3 lights. Then I ensured it was a Binary Sensor so I could test on On/Off with attribute of count (binary_sensor: !include binary_sensor.yaml).
That's also an idea indeed.
Very concise. Just what I was looking for. Thanks
Awesome!
Thank you for all those videos, I'm a beginner and I'm french speaking but your english and the structure of your videos make it easy to understand and to learn how to use this great HA. Thank you so much for this incredible work !
Best learning video ever. Thank you
Thanks for the compliments!
This video is just what I was looking for! Very clear and concise! Thank you sir! 👍🏆
Whenever you release a new videos I start juggling around my HA setup. I think in the back of my mind I have of lots of ideas and when you dive in great detail it brings those things in my head to the forefront. Your expressive nature, detail and clarity make for a great experience. Thank you. 👍
Thank you for your kind words ☺️🙏🏻☺️
Just watched this....found it very useful. I will be putting it to use later :) ..yes, I have liked and subscribed! Thanks again
Lovely! Thank you 🙏🏻
Ed, bravo as usual! I have a quick tip to share....
At 22:07 you're forced to scroll horizontally to show the code. To avoid this scenario in future videos, click the top header (where, in this case, it says "Entities Card Configuration"). That will make the window expand horizontally to the full width of your screen. A perfect solution for scenarios like this :)
Thanks as always. Your videos are an tremendous help. Cheers from Kansas City!
Wow, thank you! I didn't know this... I keep learning every day.
@@SmartHomeJunkie
Things you've taught me: 1000
Things I've taught you: 1
It's nice to even the ratio a bit :D
@@BallsworthBallsbury ☺️
Great video! I just started to play with templates and this video explain it on a good way! THANKS!
Thk you very much. Easy, clear... ,thank you very much for your time
You're welcome.
Great video, one of the best this year, hope you do some more on the subject, nice nice work learned a lot
Thank you for this BIG compliment! 🙏🏻
Very clear and concise, I love it!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Ed, I really like your video's, very informative and down to earth, keep up the good work :)
Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏻
Exactly what i needed.
That's great to hear. I want to create an updated video shortly because of since changes in HA, but this still works.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Great, your channel is a must for new and experienced HA coders!
Copied the light counter and it worked directly 👍 Any chance you could do a counter for switches and not the least counter for entities not available?
Cheers
Thx. For switches is easy. Just replace light by switch and remove the two group exclusions.
Thanks so much for explaining this so concisely!
Thank you, very informative 👍
This was by far the easiest way to explain this - Thank You! For the lights state is there a way to use state.light but sort for a group that you have created?
This is awesome! Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your kind comment!
Thanks Ed, 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!
That's worth a video!
Bedankt, Super leerzaam, graag meer van dit.
Is in de maak. Woensdag verandert het hele configuration menu met de nieuwe release, dus ik wil die nieuwe video nog even aanpassen zodat hij aangepast is aan het nieuwe menu. Duurt dus nog even.
Exactly what I needed. Great explanation. Subscribed.
Great to hear and Thank you!
Goede uitleg, heldere video! Ik denk dat ik er binnenkort mee ga spelen zodat het één en ander niet alleen functioneler wordt, maar ook mooier :)
Thank you for another amazing video ! Greetings from Portugal :-)
You're welcome
Thank to the necessary explanation 👌🏻
You're welcome!
Excellent explanation! Thank you!
I'm glad you like it Paulo!
Hi
This was a great tutorial and I implemented it a year ago But recently I noticed that it was showing a wrong total. After a bit of searching, I found the cause I had installed 3 new Reolink cameras and it was picking up the camera infra-red lights entities and adding them to the total these are exposed by the Reolink integration. I just 'piped a -3' in the Mushroom card on the dashboard and fixed the problem as I considered that the counting was not wrong but the display was including 3 lights that were not really visible as lights.
You can also change the filtering of entities so that certain devices are not taken into account.
Love your videos, enjoy the multiple things you cover to make my HA so much more! As a noob I tried to use the code you provided, but had issues when copying it into config and templates. Not sure where I went wrong. Will continue to investigate and see if I can get it working.
I updated the download file and added some instructions in there on how to use it.
@@SmartHomeJunkie since I already downloaded the code, do I need to pay again to get the updated file?
@@azbound5310 No. Contact me on Discord please. But the code was changed a week ago, so if you downloaded it after that, you should be fine.
Great video! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!!
You're welcome!
Hi, great tuto, very clear, step by step.
Can you let me know which card you use for the animated weather card ?
Regards
The animated weather card from HACS
Ed, again a lovely tutorial and a lot of information. The more you run HACS services, is that not memory intensive?
Thanks Alfonso,
I didn't experience any memory problems yet. But you can also use templates and custom sensors without using a HACS integration. I just used these two HACS frontend integration to make the tutorial more visual attractive.
That are just amazing tutorials and so helpful! Thank you very much for your effort you put into these videos!
Great tutorial, thanks a lot!!
Just one question: How to exclude zha light groups from light count template?
Thank you in advance!
Not sure. I do not use ZHA myself currently. You'd have to investigate which attributes are unique for ZHA groups and exclude entities that contain that attribute or attribute value.
Thanks dude. You saved me. :)
Wow, great content!!! THANKS.
Glad that you like it!
Thanks!
Thank you for your support!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
awesome video, as always....
I do have a question though. how would you go about, if I had to change the light sensor to door sensor and identify how many doors (windows in my case) are open and give me a message exactly which window is open?
I'd appreciate it if you could give me some hints, guidance etc...
Thanks!
This is definitely possible. I created this before, but would have to dive into it again.
Hi,
Thank you for all the tips you are giving us, they are very useful.
I'm having problem trying to set the icon for my sensor.value for the weather [current.condition] .
The problem is related to the weather list based on the weather condition [ int ] that I cannot find anywhere other than in English.
. Fx: I'm using a French UI I'd like to make sure I have the good translation to the current condition or even better the integer values to the current states as below in my languages.
Is there is a particular place when the entire list of weather condition are available?
[ int ] : Terms
3 : Cloudy (English)
3 : Nuageux (French)
thank you for
Great Video, Still digesting it though. Any change you can do a video on how to create this custom weather card with animated icons? or give me some pointers...
Yes, I can: github.com/bramkragten/weather-card
Hello Ed, is it possible for you to create a tutorila o9n how to install Home Assistant on a VMware virtual machine? I'm enjoying your informative how to's. Thank you
Hi Ed! Again nice video's, please continue with the great work. I followed this video and was interested in the section: number of lights that were on.
Have just two questions/problems to solve:
1. I tried to do this and added a line in configuration.yaml and created the sensors.yaml (and rebooted afterwards), but at the developer [status], i cannot find the entity with friendly name. (in your video around 19min.)
Configuration.yaml (end of the file I wrote):
sensor: !include sensors.yaml
Sensors.yaml I wrote:
#### Count number of lights on ###############################
- platform: template
sensors:
number_lights_on:
friendly_name: Aantal Lampen Aan
value_template: >-
{{ states.light
| rejectattr('attributes.is_Axis_group', 'eq', true)
| rejectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'defined')
| selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')
| list | count }}
icon_template: mdi:lightbulb-group
2. I have several Axis cam's and think he is also calculating the infrared lights.
Do i have to make this line: | rejectattr('attributes.is_Axis_group', 'eq', true) --> or just fill in the brandname AXIS?
I tried all, but when i have the IR of one of the Axis fixed on ON, it will still calculate it to the totals.
How can i exclude those? Because the attributes Axis or similar doesn't seem to work.
Hope you can advise me to this.
Thanks and greetings.
Richard
Hi. ! great job. A complex argument made easy.
Anyway I've a question for you that I've posted on the HA forum but without any useful reply .
I’ve an ESP32 device connected to HA via BLE.
The ESP32 is in deep sleep for the most of the time and , perodically, say 3 secs every minute, it is awake.
When it is awake it sends the value on a specific pin (say pin 34) tha can be low or high.
I’d like that on the HA dashboard will be an “indicator” (a sort of LED) that when the value on the pin 34 is High will be ON and remain ON even when the ESP32 goes to deep sleep.
The led must go from ON to OFF (and remain OFF) only when, in the next awake interval, the value on the ESP32 pin change from High to LOW.
In other words, I need of a sort of memory that need an high, momentary, value to set ON (and remain ON) and a low, momentary pulse to set OFF (and remain OFF).
Have you ever faced anything like ?
Thanks in advance.
Спасибо тебе. Я долго искал обьяснения работы с шаблонами, но не мог найти в русскоязычном сегменте, пока не нашёл твоё обучение.
Wow, nice. THX!
Another great video. I’ve learnt a lot of the basic stuff in HA so this is my next learning curve. It looks simple enough but I will but some paracetamol just in case😂💊
LOL. I'm sure you will be fine!
Hi. Battery status template all ok till creating dashboard card. No Icon showing. This happens with the custom mushroom template card. Here is my icon code {{state_attr('sensor.battery_status_front_door_lock','icon') }}. Is this correct? Many thanks.
@@kevinhenryviii Please check the link in the description to my Github page for the more complete battery level code.
Thank you. All working now and not 1 paracetamol taken💊😁 Once again thank you. Only another 13 battery level sensors to go🤦🏻
@@kevinhenryviii Great to hear!
Great video learned a lot thankyou
Glad you like it Nigel!
great! Thank you for the excellent lecture
Thank you for this compliment.
Thanks for this video.. it really helped :)
You're very welcome!
Nice tutorial. 👍
Thx
Love this. Where can I find your template code. I would like to copy it and paste in my own entities. Thanks
Ah, good point! I will add it to my Github page and will add the link in the description.
Done ;)
Thank you.
Perfecto!!!!
Another great video from SMJ, I would like to see future videos about Mushroom cards, like example how to create "Mushroom Chips Card" that showing count of lights with state "on" based on "Custom: Auto Entities Card. Thx
Tanks, but why based on auto entities card? It's not needed to determine the number of lights that are on. You can just count all the light entities like how I do it in this video. But I might miss what you are meaning exactly.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Reason why I said that I would like to see count on lights with states "on" to be based on previously built custom auto entities card because that I have lights with switch domain and I have exclude entities that are not lights. After I adjusted custom auto entities card I was think that will be easier way the count option base on that card. I agree that way that you educate us through the your video is totaly acceptable and I will go that way. Thanks for your dedicated work.
@@adnanhukic1974 since the latest version of Home Assistant, you can show a switch as a light and HA will count that switch as a light of you indicated that in the entity settings of that switch.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I know that we can change now entity name like from switch to light, I am on it, thanks for your quick reply.
I just subscribed, awesome material; if it's possible next time check/change your Mic, a lot of background noise in the video, everything else was really good
Thx. This is an older video. In my newer videos this is sorted already.
Awesome, just implemented the number of lights template and mushroom card too, this is great!
I really want to know now though, how is your "All Lights" button (at 25:49) implemented? I really want to have an All Lights Off button on my dashboard!
tNice tutorials video is a godsent, thank you so much
Great information and very useful 👍
Bedankt
Thanks Marcel!
Great tutorial. The Number Lights ON entity is used in my mushroom chips card where the entities are shown at the top of the dashboard. Can I use the code for the icon color change there?
Been trying to it seems not possible.
Thanks.
This copes with removing light groups of either HA or Hue flavour
{% set exclude = ["light.not_to_be_counted","light.another_not_to_be_counted"] %}
{{ states.light
| rejectattr('entity_id','in', exclude )
| selectattr('attributes.is_hue_group','undefined')
| selectattr('attributes.entity_id', 'undefined')
| selectattr('state','eq','on')
| list
| count
}}
just amazing!!!! one question how I can use the templates in esphome. for example wind direction, I have an esp32 adc pin reading voltage divider array, I want an esp32 to send different states depending on the reading. for example, if the reading is 3v then north, 2.8v east, 2.5v west, 2v south, 1.7 v northeast, and so on. code is working in the template editor after watching your video, it displays the direction according to the voltages. but I have no idea how to use it with esphome so that esp32 can send that state to home assistant. maybe I have to make a custom sensor with a platform template in esphome code but I can't figure out how. the project is a weather station and I want to send the state of wind direction to the home assistant. i really appreciate your help. thank you
It's too complex to explain in a comment, but it might be a nice idea for a future video.
@@SmartHomeJunkiehi i think i figure it out but I didn't try it, I just read the documentation and I think I got it, but I try it tomorrow if I got it work I'll let you know and also I can help you for your next video, but really your video helped me to learn templates. Thank you
Ok, been using the "number of lights" template for a couple of months and have it on my dashboard. It's pretty cool. But now that I know that X number of lights are on, how can I get it to list which lights it found? That's what I want to know now!
for those having issues with the icons not showing up in the custom:template-entity-row, there's a current bug in github repo of the template-entity-row custom card about icons not properly displaying after 2023.2.x update, checking the solution in the github issue might help. happy hacking!
Great video!!
Quick question on what cameras you use to get a real-time view in your dashboard?
Thx. I have multiple. Ring and Reolink.
I am thinking of putting a Home Assistant in my RV so that I can monitor temps and a cameras. We have a need to leave the dogs behind and want to make sure they are quiet and not too hot.
I currently have a Home Assistant at home. Have you done any videos on multiple instances of HA ??
@@RobFahndrich1 No, I did not, but it shouldn't be a problem to have multiple HA instances. I have two myself in my house. One for testing and one production instance.
This is really cool! is it also possible for 2 motion sensors to become one ?
for instance it turns on when one or the other gets triggered and only turns of when both stop detecting motion
Yes, by placing them in a group!
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks ! I don't know why I didn't thought of that it sounds so logical
Hello, I've enjoyed your tutorial. I'm trying to build a template that gives me the answer to the following questions : Is there motion in the house and if so, where is the motion ? Any idea how this would look like ?
Interesting use case. I think it might be easier to use the auto-entities card from HACS to create this. I'd have to think about how to create a template sensor for this. 🤔
@@SmartHomeJunkie thank you for your quick reply. Another one, that comes to mind is related to door sensors and curtain switches. I'm now thinking in the direction of using NR to populate an input boolean and effectively the auto-entities card (which I never used)
@@jenswymeersch9653 You don't need Node Red for that. (I'm not a fan of Node Red, but that is my personal thing)
Thank you for great video. Could you please add the codes to blog for the dashboard entities cards
Unfortunately, I do not have these cards on my own dashboard anymore :(, so I's have to rewrite the code. I will do that as soon as I find the time for this.
Thank you for your prompt reply. I have also sent an 📧. Regards Ajay
Excellent! I have used it to derive the difference between two temperature sensors and tell my ceiling fan to turn on when the difference is greater than 5deg. For some reason the difference is sometimes reported to 6 decimal places though! How would I get it to display to just one decimal place? Thanks so much for your great videos.
{{ states('sensor.inside_temperature')float - states('sensor.rm_pro_temperature')|float }}
You can add |round(2) to your template code.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks so much, perfect.
@@SmartHomeJunkie What would I do to remove all decimal places so I get 25 instead of 25.8? Thanks so much.
@@peejayw Use | round(0) at the end of the line in the template.
Takk!
Thank you for your support! 🙏🏻
Hello, your vidéo made me jumping into the yaml world. Thank you. I have a question : do template generated sensors can be used in automations via the GUI ? Or do i have to write my own automation in yaml too ? 😉
You can use them in the GUI!
@@SmartHomeJunkie that's why i was asking...my sensor don't show up in the list. HA was complaining about unique_id not set, but i fixed it. But still no sensor available
@@SmartHomeJunkie My mistake...i was trying to chose from the device menu for trigger, wrong method 😉. Works a lot better with state value change as a trigger. Problem solved. Thanks again
Ed, perfect tutorial. but when I try to enter settings I get this: This entity ('sensor.entities_count') does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more detail.
Add a unique ID to the template and you'll be fine.
Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while parsing a block mapping
in "/config/sensors.yaml", line 205, column 5
expected , but found ''
in "/config/sensors.yaml", line 207, column 7@@SmartHomeJunkie
Can you give a small example?
I have a sensor: “sensor.solveien_total_lifetime_energy_output_2”. This sensor counts lifetime kWh produced by my solar panels.
I like to make two new sensors that gets it value from the “solveien_total_lifetime_energy_output_2” sensor.
The two new sensors need to be updated with new values, once each month, day 1 at 00:00:01, and the second sensor need to be updated once a year, January 1. at 00:00:01.
The monthly sensor can be named: growatt_lifetime_mnd_value
The yearly sensor can be named: growatt_lifetime_year_value
Do you have a tutorial covering such topics in how to make?
Alweer een fijne video van je ! Die template-entity-row kende ik nog niet 👌
Een vraagje/opmerking : ik dacht begrepen te hebben dat het gebruik van sensor.yaml afgeraden wordt en je deze zaken nu in templates.yaml moet stoppen... ? Voordeel is alvast dat je de templates afzonderlijk kunt herladen zonder HA te moeten heropstarten.
Thx. Zou kunnen. Is mij niet bekend.
Ziehier de link :
www.home-assistant.io/integrations/template/#legacy-binary-sensor-configuration-format
En daar lees je dus dit :
For old sensor/binary sensor configuration format, see below.
@@christian1603 Goed punt. Heb ik weer iets om een video over te maken. 🙃
Thank you very much for taking time to explain... you've helped me a lot ! I was wondering how to get the number of low battery devices ? I tried to duplicate the template removing unecessary lines but it doesn't work. I tried to create another template sensor with a template {{ 'Low Battery Devices' | count | int }} without success... Is there another way we can get it ?
Check this video for that: HOW TO create your own Low Battery Warning Sensor In Home Assistant - TUTORIAL
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@@SmartHomeJunkie I made the comment at the wrong place… it was supposed to refer to the video you ask me to watch !
But this video explains how to make a list, not to get the number of sensors involved. Tried to duplicate code with a « count » function. Tried to make a new sensor with a count of the original one. But none works.
I’ll investigate further more.
Found it out ! Just reworked the code in the other video. Kept the beginning until {%- endfor -%} followed by a simple {{ ns.sensors | count }}
Now I will make a button with a green icon if everything is ok and a red mdi-battery-alert with a label stating the number of low battery devices . Click on that button will (If I manage to do it) open a popup with the list as you explained.
That will be a great user interface I think...
Thanks a lot ! 😉
@@Kriss5054 Wow, that's great to hear!
Tak!
Thank you so much for your support 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Beste Smart Home Junkie,
Heel hartelijk dank voor alle leerzame videos'.
Ik krijg de lightcounter niet aan de praat en dat ligt denk ik met name aan het feit dat ik een conbee stick gebruik en geen deconz. Daardoor is de sensor niet goed. Als ik een deel van de sensor weghaal waarbij de "rejectattr' in staat werkt het wel alleen dan telt hij ook de groupen. Zou je mij een duwtje in de goede richting willen geven hoe dit op te lossen?
Een voorbeeld van een van de groepen die ik gebruik is als volgt: light.dresden_elektronik_conbee_ii_bijkeuken_lampen_zha_group_0x0004
Bij voorbaat veel dank!!
{{ state_attr('sensor.bathroom_sensor_temperature','temperature') }}
Result type: string shows as None. Any idea what may have caused this, is something wrong with the code? thank you
Try {{ states('sensor.bathroom_sensor_temperature')}}