Get average for a specific time period over a number of days. about ha-average

[Limych]

The principle of specifying the duration parameter is uniform across multiple components in HA. It is always a single, inseparable period of time. If you and I begin to invent a new meaning for it, we will get a huge confusion in the minds of users. And this is very bad.

The only way that I see for solving your problem is to make two levels of calculation. In the first one, calculate the average value for the required period of the current day, and with the second sensor, calculate the average value of the average values for the week.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: average
    name: 'Daily Average Temperature During Sun'
    start: '{{ now().replace(hour=19).replace(minute=0).replace(second=0) }}'
    duration:
       hours: 20
    entities:
      - sensor.temperature_measurement

  - platform: average
    name: 'Average Temperature During Sun'
    duration:
       days: 5
    entities:
      - sensor.daily_average_temperature_during_sun

[AceoStar]

Good point! I'll give that a shot. I never thought about averaging the average sensors. :D

[AceoStar]

This seems to be working well. I don't know if there's a good way to inspect the values that are recorded to "test" the calculation, but it looks right at a glance. Thanks again for the help!

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