activity sensors return data in metric despite HA system unit setting

[sqweak]

Both sensor.distance and sensor.average_active_pace return their data in meters. It'd be great if these respected the HA config value for imperial/metric.

[robbiet480]

@balloob suggested that the way to implement this is not in the iOS app but in mobile_app. Mobile apps, such as the iOS app, should pass along a new value, alternative_unit which could be like feet if the value is in meters. Then it would be up to mobile_app to do the conversion.

This is low priority for me though.

[sqweak]

Not sure I see why the client app would need to pass anything. Since mobile_app has access to the config setting, knows that iOS is the source, and we know that iOS pedometer is in meters, why couldn't we just build it to do the conversion that matches config setting without change to the iOS app?

[robbiet480]

We (iOS app) needs to provide relevant units, not just the system. e.g. you want distance in feet, not inches, but HA isn’t smart enough to know that

[TomBrien]

Even if HA can sort the conversion, the app should (must) provide units otherwise there is an assumption and the whole thing will fall over in the morning. Personally I think the whole units could be looked at better. At the moment units are simply strings which is open to confusion. Personally I would favour implementing a simplified version of astroPy. That then could properly exploit unit preferences in HA

[ac0mputerguru]

I find this annoying, as well. It would be nice to have a configuration on the sensor in HA for m/ft.

[Sawadee2u]

Looks like the request has died on the vine.

unit_of_measurement: 'ft'
Could there not be code add to support the above?