Mastering temperature trends: Elevating your Home Assistant dashboard with sensor insights

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Yesterday during lunch break, I was playing with the temperature trend sensors in Home Assistant and tried to have their graphical representation directly on the Home Assistant dashboard, in order to quickly assess the temperature trends.

In today's article, I will delve into how to accomplish this.

Hardware configuration

• ConBee II Zigbee USB coordinator?plugged into the USB port of my QNAP NAS
• Aqara Temperature and Humidity sensors

Software configuration

• Home Assistant. I'm currently running version?2023.8.1
• Zigbee home automation integration?configured in?Home Assistant
• HACS installed in Home Assistant. Here for more details
• Custom chips card installed. Here for more details

Procedure

The first step is to configure the binary_sensor trend sensor based on the Aqara temperature and humidity sensor for which you want to get the trend.

Below the yaml code you have to write in order to have two trend sensors to indicate whether the temperature is rising or falling at a rate of at least 0,5 degrees an hour:

- platform: trend
? ? sensors:
? ? ? trend_temp_studio_aumento:
? ? ? ? entity_id: sensor.lumi_lumi_weather_temperature_2
? ? ? ? sample_duration: 10800
? ? ? ? max_samples: 120
? ? ? ? min_gradient: 0.0001
? ? ? ? device_class: heat

- platform: trend
? ? sensors:
? ? ? trend_temp_studio_diminuzione:
? ? ? ? entity_id: sensor.lumi_lumi_weather_temperature_2
? ? ? ? sample_duration: 10800
? ? ? ? max_samples: 120
? ? ? ? min_gradient: -0.0001
? ? ? ? device_class: cold        

To get specific details about how it works, please refer to this article.

Having the trend sensors correctly configured, the next step is to show their states on the Home Assistant's dashboard.

This is the yaml code to be used:

type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
chips:
? - type: entity
? ? entity: sensor.lumi_lumi_weather_temperature_2
? - type: template
? ? entity: binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_aumento
? ? icon: >-
? ? ? {{ "mdi:arrow-top-right" if
? ? ? states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_aumento") == "on" }}

? ? ? {{ "mdi:arrow-bottom-right" if
? ? ? states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_diminuzione") == "on" }}

? ? ? {{ "mdi:arrow-right" if states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_aumento")
? ? ? == "off" and states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_diminuzione") ==
? ? ? "off" }}
? ? icon_color: >
? ? ? {{ "red" if states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_aumento") == "on" }}

? ? ? {{ "blue" if states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_diminuzione") == "on"
? ? ? }}

? ? ? {{ "green" if states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_diminuzione") ==
? ? ? "off" and states("binary_sensor.trend_temp_studio_aumento") == "off"}}
? ? double_tap_action:
? ? ? action: none
? ? tap_action:
? ? ? action: none
? ? hold_action:
? ? ? action: none        

This is the final result, of course based on the current state of the trend sensors above:

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