Unable to convert to float

[Kaibob2]

When esphome looses connecting to a node the entity referred in the daily sensor becomes unavailable. This leads to a bunch of errors in the log until the connection is re-established and the entity becomes available again.

2021-05-28 06:35:22 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.esphome] Can't connect to ESPHome API for energymeter (192.168.0.84): Timeout while connecting to ('192.168.0.84', 6053)
2021-05-28 06:35:34 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.esphome] Error getting initial data for 192.168.0.84: Timeout while waiting for API response!
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert unavailable to float.
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert to float.
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert unavailable to float.
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert to float.
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert unavailable to float.
2021-05-28 06:35:43 ERROR (SyncWorker_46) [custom_components.daily.sensor] unable to convert to float.

[jeroenterheerdt]

correct. How do propose to fix this? I mean, it's out of the hands of this component - it's a connectivity issue between home assistant and esphome.

[Kaibob2]

Hmmm. MAybe something like: If unavailable -> do nothing
I'm not a programmer. I thought maybe there is an easy fix around here

HADailySensor/custom_components/daily/sensor.py

Line 72 in d5873f4

if state is not None and state.state != "unavailable":

[jeroenterheerdt]

that line does exactly that: is the state is not unavailable or not 'not present' we don't do anything. That's the standard way HA lets a component know the sensor is not there.

[Kaibob2]

I see. So i suppose i just have to live with the log errors :)
Thanks for the explanation. Have a nice weekend.

[Kaibob2]

One last suggestion: Would it be possible to make the error a little more informative?
Like "energymeter is unavailable. unable to convert value to float." Or something similar.

[jeroenterheerdt]

I can absolutely look at that.