daily_fixed_energy with template is stopping HA boot

As referenced here https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/issues/828, the HA booting is not possible anymore with a template in daily_fixed_energy. At least I can narrow it down to this special config entry.

  - platform: powercalc
    unique_id: unique_id_powercalc_gartenbewasserung
    name: Gartenbewässerung
    daily_fixed_energy:
      value: "{{ states('sensor.gartenbewasserung_stromstarke')|float(default=3) }}"
      unit_of_measurement: W

Before your betas this morning, I adjusted one existing daily_fixed_energy sensor. I’m not sure anymore if I have rebooted before the betas, but now, with this change, the booting stops forever (fortunately ssh, config-directory, etc. are still accessible). And only hard power off is bringing HA back.

[bramstroker]

BTW as it was the staring point this morning. If I don’t have an enetiy to bind to, what would be the designed way of having a templated power? Create a helper entity? This is what I wanted to avoid first, so I used the templated fixed daily, because the only one, where I don’t need an existing entity.

Btw in the new version v0.24.0 there will be a possibility to define a dummy sensor for entity_id, which would eliminate the need to define a helper entity.

You can do like this:

sensor:
  - platform: powercalc
    entity_id: sensor.dummy
    name: Dummy
    fixed:
      power: "{{states('input_number.power_value')}}"

[bramstroker]

Evaluating template has been resolved with #863