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add reason to a sensor in HA
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- [X] This only contains 1 feature request (if you have multiple feature requests, open one feature request for each feature request).
- [X] This issue is not a duplicate feature request of previous feature requests.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have 3 sets of windows on the north side of my house, the sun is not normally an issue compared to the ones of the south side. What is driving me nuts is that the settings for these windows are identical, yet the windows are all at different positions right now. I cannot for the life of my figure out why. I am about to move back to the blue print because of these irregularities.
What would be ideal is if there were a sensor in HA that told me WHY this code decided to make a window 25% when it is partly cloudy (and this is a selected weather) and 60F outside (when the lower temp is set at 65F) and the room is 70F when the range for comfort is 66-74F and the sensor says someone is home. Because in the flow chart it seems this should mean the shade is open...
I'd be ok if all the shades were the same position - then I would know I need to keep working on the settings. But since they are all at different levels, I have no clue why each one is different.
Describe the solution you'd like
A text field that says something like: cover at 100% (open) because room is comfortable (in range) cover is at 100% (open) because outside temp is lower than set threshold Cover is at 0% (closed) because outside temp is higher than threshold
I have added these as attributes to all of my custom sensors to avoid hours of debugging.,
Describe alternatives you've considered
move back to the blue print because it has a built in Boolean section which is testable
Additional context
not sure there is any