Numbers are formatted not accordingly to global settings

[ildar170975]

The card should use global format settings:

This card contains:

• conventional input_number row;
• multiple-entity-row with the same row with different formats.

Note that:

• the conventional row displays WRONG format (frontend issue);
• multiple-entity-row displays WRONG format in some cases.

  - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
        name: test value
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
            name: unformatted
        show_state: false
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
            name: invert
            format: invert
        show_state: false
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
            name: kilo
            format: kilo
        show_state: false
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
            name: precision
            format: precision4
        show_state: false
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.test_negative_1
            name: position
            format: position
        show_state: false

Now, lets choose "None" format:

The card now shows RIGHT format:

[bcutter]

See #212 (comment) and following. Might be related to the same root cause.

Introduced with v4.3.0 I think.

[benct]

Guess I missed numberFormat on invert and position. Anything else?

[ildar170975]

Anything else?

No, I think only these two options are with problems.

[ildar170975]

Confirm (Win10x64, Chrome):

The conventional entity-row has wrong format (frontend issue).

[bcutter]

Have a look at https://community.home-assistant.io/t/multiple-entity-row-card-local-number-formatting-update-broke-view/370718 for examples when this local number awareness feature is going too far.

[ildar170975]

Here is one more issue - again formatting does not work.

There are 2 sensors from systemmonitor:

• sensor.memory_free
• sensor.memory_use

This sensor is a sum of those sensors:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      memory_total:
        unit_of_measurement: MB
        icon_template: mdi:chip
        value_template: >-
          {% set FREE = 'sensor.memory_free' -%}
          {%- set USE = 'sensor.memory_use'-%}
          {{ ((states(FREE)|float) + (states(USE)|float)) | round(1) }}

And here is a card:

  - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: sensor.memory_free
      - entity: sensor.memory_use
      - entity: sensor.memory_total
      - type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        entity: sun.sun
        entities:
          - entity: sensor.memory_free
            name: free
          - entity: sensor.memory_free
            name: free
            unit: false
          - entity: sensor.memory_use
            name: use
          - entity: sensor.memory_total
            name: total
            unit: false
          - entity: sensor.memory_total
            name: total
        show_state: false

The same value is displayed differently if it is w/o unit:

My guess that it could be connected to using round(...) function in value_template.

Current settings:

[benct]

Not quite sure how to fix this, as the problem lies in HA's compute_state_display function which uses formatNumber on states that have a unit_of_measurement or state_class. Removing or having no unit prevents it from running the formatting.

Potential workaround while I figure this out:

• unit: false if you dont want the value formatted
• unit: ' ' if you need the formatting

[ildar170975]

I think that unit: false is not the same as "no unit_of_measurement is specified": the 1st is a frontend setting (display the unit or not), the 2nd is a core system stuff.
Probably this function should not depend on frontend setting...

[ildar170975]

2023.5.4, still same issue with a template sensor:

• with UoM
• when this UoM is not displayed (unit: false)
• round(1) is used in a sensor.