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Alternative Plant component of home assistant
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Feature Request: Allow non-Sensor entity to be used for Meter entity. #172

Closed Kagey-cmd closed 2 months ago

Kagey-cmd commented 5 months ago

I'd like to be able to use humidity, temperature, etc. data from a weather integration for my outdoor plants. This would eliminate the need to purchase yet another sensor to place outdoors when this meteorological data is readily available.

Kagey-cmd commented 5 months ago

Current workaround is to create a template sensor entity, which works fine but seems unnecessary.

ChristophCaina commented 4 months ago

A weather integration provides the temperature and humidity information as attribute. Attributes are not handled the same way as sensor values within HomeAssistant - and therefore, the correct way (even from side of HomeAssistant) is the approach with writing the attribute states into template sensors.

TheWarped commented 3 months ago

Openweather creates the sensor "sensor.openweathermap_temperature", and by calling the service in the developer tools "Plant monitor: Replace sensor", that sensor can be associated with a plant.