Daily energy entities disappear from powercalc UI after reboot

[mikealanni]

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Describe the issue

I have created like 5 entries in powercalc gui and there were working with no issue, restart home assistant made them disappeared from powercalc but they are available on entities with red exponential mark saying unavailable "This entity is no longer being provided by the powercalc integration. If the entity is no longer in use, delete it in settings"

Reproduction steps

1. Create daily energy like fridge
2. Value like 1
3. tiggle utilities meter
   4.submit
4. Restart home assistant
5. Entry disappeared
   ...

Debug logs

2024-05-30 14:14:58.142 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.daily_energy] Creating daily_fixed_energy energy sensor (name=Test_debug energy, entity_id=sensor.test_debug_energy, unique_id=Test_debug)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.142 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.daily_energy] Creating daily_fixed_energy power sensor (base_name=Test_debug unique_id=Test_debug)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.142 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.power] Creating power sensor (entity_id=sensor.dummy entity_category=None, sensor_name=Test_debug power strategy=fixed manufacturer= model= unique_id=Test_debug_power)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.143 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.utility_meter] Creating utility_meter sensor: Test_debug energy daily (entity_id=sensor.test_debug_energy_daily)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.143 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.utility_meter] Creating utility_meter sensor: Test_debug energy weekly (entity_id=sensor.test_debug_energy_weekly)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.143 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.utility_meter] Creating utility_meter sensor: Test_debug energy monthly (entity_id=sensor.test_debug_energy_monthly)
2024-05-30 14:14:58.143 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.daily_energy] sensor.test_debug_energy: Restoring state: 0
2024-05-30 14:14:58.144 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.power] sensor.dummy: State changed to "on". Power:25.00
2024-05-30 14:14:59.147 ERROR

Diagnostics dump or YAML config

No response

[bramstroker]

No errors in the logs?

You should see Creating daily_fixed_energy energy sensor one time for each your config entry, which indicates the entities are being created by powercalc.
In your debugs logs I only see one for "Test_debug", so that's probably a test you did?

[mikealanni]

Yes I did the test to collect the debug info and only that what I've got. Any daily energy sensors created by powercalc via the UI will disappear after restart the home assistant. So I went a head and created them in the configuration yaml file and they are working with no issue. The only two sensors that never disappeared from powercalc are the Google home that automatically discovered and another one I created for my Tuya smart plug. Maybe because they associate with actual devices and the daily energy all just virtual?

[tubbers]

i have this issue too. real devices stay, but any virtual device disappears. I note the entities are still there, but inactive, but the base device is gone

[bramstroker]

@mikealanni Issue confirmed with Daily energy. I was able to reproduce and have a fix with #2271
Actually this bug was introduced in very recent version v1.12.3 from 2 weeks ago.

@tubbers For you also this config entry is not visible anymore at "Integration entries"?

Did you create this recently?

If not available anymore please create again, and after that check the logs for errors. Also click three dots and download diagnostics than. Would help me debug the issue.

When the config entry is still visible, also download diagnostics and share.

[laplac]

I have the same issue. Real device stays like Alexa and virtual device disappear.

[bramstroker]

@laplac Could you have a look into the questions I asked to @tubbers ?
And since when do you experience this issue?

[laplac]

@bramstroker I was on version 1.12.3. I just updated to version 1.12.5 now and will test.

Q. this config entry is not visible anymore at "Integration entries"?
A. The config disappear completely from the integration entries after restart. the entities like energy and utility entities stays but with status "Not provided"

Q. Did you create this recently?
A. Yes on version 1.12.3 . I didn't use Daily Energy feature before until a week ago.

[bramstroker]

@bramstroker I was on version 1.12.3. I just updated to version 1.12.5 now and will test.

Q. this config entry is not visible anymore at "Integration entries"? A. The config disappear completely from the integration entries after restart. the entities like energy and utility entities stays but with status "Not provided"

Q. Did you create this recently? A. Yes on version 1.12.3 .

Ah ok thanks. That was exactly what I was able to reproduce and fixed. But not released yet.
This bug was specifically with "Daily fixed energy", not "Virtual power (manually)".
There was a JSON encoding issue while saving the config entry, so the entry would never been actually saved, and thus not surviving restarts.

Will release new version shortly with the fix.

But I was uncertain because of your comment "virtual device disappear" that the issue was broader than only the daily fixed sensors.

[bramstroker]

Just released v1.12.6 with the fix.
@tubbers when your issue is not with "Daily energy" sensors please create a separate issue, and provide more information.

[tubbers]

I don't have the 3 dots to download, as the devices are missing. So there is no configure option or 3 dots. Only physical devices exist. I upgraded to this new fixed version and recreated the devices. I created both daily energy and virtual devices and both were lost on reboot