Averaging data

[flybrys]

I'm loving the reliability of this script since I implemented it a week ago on a Pi ZeroW. One feature that would be nice is to have the option to calculate the average data over a selectable period of sensor polls. For example when I water a plant the moisture will shoot through the roof and report a problem, go up and down for a while, and then suddenly drop when things start to settle down. I guess I could increase the delay between polls, but even then the sensors seem to have the occasional erratic value. I'm receiving push notifications when there is a problem, and there's been an increase of irrelevant notifications since switching to this script

I'm using HA and I could set up a bunch of template sensors using the MQTT sensors as the source, but it seems silly to have sensors to sense sensors.

[ThomDietrich]

Would be possible. There were also reports of seldom value spikes (measurement errors) for single devices that we should handle.

Not sure if I will find the time to implement this right away but a general routine to clean measurements should be part of #111 which I want to invest some time into this year. If you want this feature quicker, I welcome you to contribute a Pull Request

[tehbra1n]

It looks like this new sensor in HA might provide this functionality but requires that the sensor created for the miflora support it.