Echo and Echo Plus Temperature Sensor in Celsius Only

[jstinesnc]

I recently upgraded to 2022.7.2 of Home Assistant and upgraded to the latest version of Alexa Media Player. I am in the USA and have my temp preference set as Fahrenheit Pounds Imperial in Home Assistant under Settings>System>General. Previously, my echo temperature sensors displayed in degree Fahrenheit, but now they only display in Celsius.

Under Entity states the sensor has the following attributes: unit_of_measurement: °C friendly_name: Dining Room Echo Plus Temperature

I tried customizing another sensor to see if it would display properly by manually adding the following:

sensor.utility_closet_echo_plus_temperature: device_class: temperature unit_of_measurement: °F state_class: measurement

This did not change the value to Fahrenheit, but only changed the degree icon to °F.

I've also tried adding only the following customization (removing the unit of measure):

sensor.utility_closet_echo_plus_temperature: device_class: temperature state_class: measurement

This did not provide the ability to change the sensor from C to F.

Other temperature sensors that are displaying properly show a dropdown setting for Unit of Measurement when clicking the gear icon for settings on the GUI dashboard. Alexa Media Player Echo Temperature Sensors don't display this dropdown.

This could be a bug in the new HA release, but I wanted to run it by you if perhaps something needs to be addressed in how the temperate sensor is created/defined through Alexa Media Player. Thanks.

[jstinesnc]

Could it possibly need native_unit_of_measurement to be set to °C and device_class set to temperature?

https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/sensor/#properties

[PJW58]

This seems to have started with a recent update to the Media Player, as I noticed this issue several days before upgrading HA to 2022.7.x

[rjdalga]

I can confirm and reproduce this issue as well.

[alandtse]

Could it possibly need native_unit_of_measurement to be set to °C and device_class set to temperature?

https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/sensor/#properties

Yes, it's probably that. Happy to take a PR when someone submits it. I don't have any temperature sensors.

[driven4jed]

Can confirm same thing here. All other temperature sensors show F while Alexa's show C. Also confirm it started with a recent update, I think 4.x in May.

[techguy930]

Can confirm same thing here. All other temperature sensors show F while Alexa's show C. Also confirm it started with a recent update, I think 4.x in May.

i can confirm also it is driving me nuts hope there is a fix soon

[rhoskins61]

+1

[kdvlr]

Created PR https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/pull/1682 to fix this. @alandtse - Please review and let me know if you need anything else to be done.

[alandtse]

Fix is in dev now. I can't test it but you can load it in HACS or wait till the next release (after it's confirmed). Thanks @kdvlr

[kdvlr]

For reference, you can download the dev branch by selecting "dev" from the dropdown. Please test and let me know if you have any errors.

[jstinesnc]

I am happy to test this, but I can't find where you are seeing this "Show beta versions" option window. Is the only way to see this option to delete the existing integration and then re-download Alexa Media Player in HACS?

[jstinesnc]

Nevermind. I found it under re-download. Thanks.

[rhoskins61]

Not sure if related, but am now getting random Alexa Media re-authentication required. Going to roll back and see what happens.

[kdvlr]

It shouldn’t. The code does not make any changes in any authentication flow. @jstinesnc - were you able to test ?

[rhoskins61]

OK, thanks.. I did test and the C > F works. TY for that fix!

[driven4jed]

Works great... Thank you*2!