Structure Change

[jazzyisj]

The structure of the package has changed. We now create a group of unavailable entities once per minute and the sensor is just the total of entities in this group. This was done to eliminate the constant iteration of the states object which could use significant resources in systems with many entities. The template containing the entity filters is now part of the group definition, not the template sensor.

Because we now only check for unavailable entities once per minute, unavailable entities may take up to a minute to be added to the group or removed from the group when they become available. The now redundant 'ignore_seconds parameter has also been removed from the template. It can be added back in if still required without consequence.

If you wish to stick with the previous structure, the old package is here package_unavailable_entities_old.yaml.

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This discussion was created from the release Structure Change.