More examples would be good - eg how to count planes per day as per your intro

[gregpetersau]

More examples would be good - eg how to count planes per day as per your intro

[bigramonk]

Agree, more examples would be nice.
I could not figure out a way to count the number of times my wine cellar door was opened in a day/week/month.

[danieldotnl]

For counting the planes during the night, I also created an automation that listens to the flightradar24_entry event and then updates a counter. Then MeasureIt uses that counter as a source sensor from 22:00-07:00h.

alias: Flight counter
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: flightradar24_entry
condition: []
action:
  - service: counter.increment
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: counter.flights_in_area
mode: single

It would be very nice if MeasureIt can count events directly. I will add that to my roadmap!
@bigramonk that would solve your case as well, as opening the cellar door will trigger an event in home assistant.

[Tobias-N7]

The concept of MeasureIt is great, but more examples would be really helpful.

I'm trying to get time stats with full/empty home battery, but can't get it to work.

Condition template:

{states('sensor.scb_battery_soc') | float > 95}
{states('sensor.scb_battery_soc') | float < 10}

Edit:
Works now! Double brackets are mandatory. Didn't knew that.

{{states('sensor.scb_battery_soc') | float > 95}}
{{states('sensor.scb_battery_soc') | float < 10}}

[danieldotnl]

Now available in v0.5.4! Let me know your experiences!

[timbrd]

Same here. I haven't been able to count planes using flightradar integration. Examples how to use measureit would be great.

[bigramonk]

@bigramonk that would solve your case as well, as opening the cellar door will trigger an event in home assistant.

I already have an automation triggered by the opening of my cellar which sends me a picture by Telegram. I'll add the counter, that should do the trick.
Thanks!

[danieldotnl]

That is indeed the most straightforward solution. The strength of MeasureIt would be if you want to count specifically how many times the cellar opens when you are not home, or when it's >30 degrees, etc.

[AnthonyBe]

It would be very nice if MeasureIt can count events directly. I will add that to my roadmap!

From my initial reading of description, I (and clearly others) thought that was what the integration actually did!
I really look forward to this capability being built-in to the integration!

[AnthonyBe]

Now available in v0.5.4! Let me know your experiences!

Brilliant! It would be great if you could provide new step by step instructions for the example counting planes with Flight radar based on the new version of MeasureIt!

[danieldotnl]

To be honest, I don't think this changes something to the approach I wrote down above.
I decided against listening to events in MeasureIt since it's quite an advanced concept which most users are not familiair with. Instead I implemented a counter that counts every time a condition becomes True.
You could use this and count each time 'sensor.flightradar24_entered_area' > 0, but then you'll miss out when 2 or more planes are entering.