Returned value is casted to String instead of Float

[KrzysztofHajdamowicz]

Hello and thanks for great component!

I've just set it up to control my air purifier in living room (other automation turn it on and off, main automation adjust fan speed). By looking at PID sensor output I just discovered that returned value is a string, thus making visualisation harder. Can You make a fix to return float values so Home Assistant can make proper graph like any other numeric sensor?

[soloam]

You are right, I'll check it out and push a update! Tks

[soloam]

@KrzysztofHajdamowicz this is actually based on the sensor unit (I'm always returning a float), some units are converted to graph (like ºC, % and rpm) other are like this. You can set any unit in the sensor. Please note that if you change the unit after some values are already in the database, you need to wait for the history to be cleared to that entity until it converts to a graph.

Tks

[RubenKelevra]

I think you just have to set the unit of measurement to some default like "points" for it to work as expected.

So if a user doesn't override it, it should be points to be graphed correctly :)

[RubenKelevra]

Please note that if you change the unit after some values are already in the database, you need to wait for the history to be cleared to that entity until it converts to a graph.

The purge recorder service hook can be limited to an entity. That's fairly new, so you might not be aware of that :)

So you can easily clear the history of one element

[soloam]

Please test the v1.1.0 @RubenKelevra and @KrzysztofHajdamowicz

[RubenKelevra]

Please test the v1.1.0 @RubenKelevra and @KrzysztofHajdamowicz

Very nice thanks :)