Information about Last Updated / Last Changed (New Cell Type?)

[nicknol]

I want to display information about e.g. temperature, moisture, humidity, ... in a table. And there I want to show as well how recent the data is, hence I wanted to show the last_updated information instead of the entity state.
I learned last_updated and last_changed aren't attributes, instead they are available via:

{{ states.sensor.my_sensor.last_updated }}

to display it properly a format string is needed (, or the system default could be used?).

{{ states.sensor.my_sensor.last_updated | as_local | strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S') }}

or the time since the last_change / last_update could shown, similar to what HA does.

[michalowskil]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/template/

Use a template to create entities/attributes that display what you want in whatever format you want. Then display it in FCC.

[nicknol]

:-)
yes, that would be an approach to get the data into cells.

And:
creating template sensors for each of the sensors which are to be shown in the table cells would mean dozens of template sensors.
And these template sensors would be created only for display purposes, which is a bit against the approach of Home Assistant.

[nicknol]

Looks super good 👍🏻
It will easy the life of many HA users. 🙂

When will it be available? v0.12?

Thanks a lot!

[michalowskil]

I don't know, maybe next week. I'll move the "Datetime format" below the attributes and it will also be used to override the entity's text value (currently, the icon disappears after overriding). I'll also add a field to change the icon size in the "icon + value" option. This also needs to be thoroughly tested.

[michalowskil]

Looks super good 👍🏻 It will easy the life of many HA users. 🙂

When will it be available? v0.12?

Thanks a lot!

• v0.12.0-beta (Pre-release) —
  • Added metadata (instead of attributes), now we have access to all data.
  • Improved "Text size (default)" in the main settings, it no longer affects icon size.
  • Added size setting for icons from entities.
  • Changed "Date/Time format" to "Date/Time format & Text override". Now we can override the entity value even if it doesn't contain a date/time.
  • Minor visual improvements.

This is a pre-release version. If no bugs are reported after a week, I'll push it as the latest version.

The pre-release version won't automatically appear in updates. If you want to test this version now, you need to click Redownload in HACS.

[michalowskil]

• v0.12.0 —
  • Added metadata (instead of attributes), now we have access to all data.
  • Improved "Text size (default)" in the main settings, it no longer affects icon size.
  • Added icon size settings (entity-derived icon).
  • Changed "Date/Time format" to "Date/Time format & Text override". Now we can override the entity value even if it doesn't contain a date/time.
  • Minor visual improvements.

[nicknol]

Excellent! Works like a charme! :-)

Many many thanks 🙏🙏