March 2024 Archive

Creating a Differential Sensor In Home Assistant

• Posted on March 25, 2024
• Read time: 3 minutes
• Tagged with automation, home assistant, tech

If you've fiddled enough in Home Assistant over time, you might have encountered the situation in which it is useful to trigger off of, or simply display, a calculated value. There are a few different ways this can be accomplished but this post focuses on creating a specific sensor to do both: be used as a trigger value for automation, and also displayed neatly in a dashboard.