Some sensor groups not loading after restarts since 2024.8

[TravisEz13]

The problem

Since 2024.08, when I restart, two sensors groups fail to load. One is the median of several sensors and the other is the statistical range. I’ve waited at least an hour with no luck. Editing the sensor resolves the issue temporarily.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

Core-2024.8.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

Core-2024.7.4

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

No response

Link to integration documentation on our website

No response

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

I’m not sure how to get the diagnostic data and yaml for a sensor group

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

2024-08-19 12:21:12.497 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.min_max.sensor] Units of measurement do not match for entity sensor.house_teml

Additional information

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[mib1185]

Please show us the configuration of these groups in question and als the state details of each grouped entity from the developer tools states tab, thx 👍

[TravisEz13]

The main one that is failing is configured like this:

I don't think I can show you the state of all the group entities when it goes into the bad state because that is when I restart home assistant, but here are the current states. If I make any configuration changes, even just a change to the precision, to the group entity, it will resolve the issue after the grouped entities are in a known state.

[mib1185]

it will resolve the issue after the grouped entities are in a known state.

i think you encounter the documented behavior of sensor groups

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[TravisEz13]

Before 2024.8 the sensor would go back automatically, now when it gets in this state during startup, it gets stuck. For all the types that have ignore_non_numeric in the GUI, I added that, and it resolved the issue. Is there a simple way to change these to YAML or do I have to completely recreate them?

[TravisEz13]

I recreated the main sensor I needed in YAML, the following and it works. I confirmed that adding ignore_non_numeric: true is what make it work and I can't find that option in the GUI.

sensor:
  - platform: group
    name: "Median Home Temp"
    device_class: temperature
    type: median
    unique_id: house_teml
    ignore_non_numeric: true
    entities:
      - sensor.living_room_temperature
      - sensor.master_temperature
      - sensor.office_temperature
      - sensor.wellness_room_temp_average

[mib1185]

you have this option available on the edit screen

[TravisEz13]

This option does not show up for me if the type is median or statistical range

[mib1185]

This option seems to be available only on the edit form, but not on the create form for this sensor group helpers