Possible to Use a Sensor as the entity

[bramstroker]

Possible to Use a Sensor as the entity

[bramstroker]

I did some development last week to use state attributes for configuration of power usage. See #60

That allows you to do something like this:

- platform: powercalc
  entity_id: media_player.playstation_4
  fixed:
      states_power:
        media_content_type|gaming: 6
        standby: 1.25
        idle: 1.8

But I think we can also allow template sensors as the entity as you request. This is a small change, will do it this week.

[wranglatang]

That sounds great! Using a Sensor. Works best for me as it is much more flexible. I have a few media players that will use different amounts of Power depending on the volume setting, so using a template sensor allows this complex logic to be created by the users.

[wranglatang]

Just seen you have a pull request open to add in the sensor domain & also a couple other items suggested by others! Looking forward to your next release! :)

[bramstroker]

Yes. Going to finish (and test) this soon. But quite busy the next days. So will be end of the weekend or beginning of next week.

[wranglatang]

Let me know if you want me to do any testing for you :)

[bramstroker]

This has been merged into master. Are you able to test with the master branch?

[wranglatang]

Absolutely! Can update from HACS? or will i need to manually copy?

[bramstroker]

You can from Hacs. Just go to the integration overview click on the 3 dots in the powercalc integration and than "reinstall"

[wranglatang]

Okay, its installed, But it doent seem to work:

Here is my configuration for my sensor template:

    playstation_4_state:
      value_template: >-
        {% if state_attr('media_player.playstation_4', 'media_content_type') == 'game' %}
          gaming
        {% elif states('media_player.playstation_4') == 'standby' %}
          rest
        {% elif states('media_player.playstation_4') == 'idle' %}
          menu
        {% else %}
          off
        {% endif %}

Here is the configuration of powercalc:

- platform: powercalc
  name: playstation_4_power
  entity_id: sensor.playstation_4_state
  fixed:
    states_power:
      rest: 11
      menu: 57
      gaming: 93
  standby_usage: 0.7

[bramstroker]

Any errors in the logs? Could you also enable debug logs for the component. See the readme how to do that.
I don't have time the next two days, but will have a look when I'm back

[wranglatang]

Ah! it seems that deleting the entity using that "Remove Entity" button then restarting HA has fixed it! Seems like changing the Entity that the PowerCalc was using caused it to break. Would it have cached its config.

I turned on debugging and no errors in the logs.

[bramstroker]

Ok nice. So everything is working now? No Idea why you had to remove the entity first