Entity does not exists & less than 1 undefined

[DunklerPhoenix]

Heho. I have two problems.

type: 'custom:vertical-stack-in-card'
cards:
  - entity: vacuum.kartoffelsauger
    type: 'custom:vacuum-card'
    image: default
    compact_view: false
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Filter reinigen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_filter_cleanup
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 3 days
        color: Yellow
      - value: 7 days
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Filter austauschen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_filter_replace
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 50 days
        color: Yellow
      - value: 60 days
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Vordere Rolle reinigen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_frontroll_cleanup
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 12 days
        color: Yellow
      - value: 14 days
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Vordere Rolle tauschen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_frontroll_replace
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 10 months
        color: Yellow
      - value: 12 months
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Sensoren reinigen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_sensor_cleanup
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 25 days
        color: Yellow
      - value: 30 days
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Aufnahmerollen reinigen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_cleanuprolls_cleanup
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 75 days
        color: Yellow
      - value: 90 days
        color: Red
  - type: 'custom:check-button-card'
    title: Aufnahmerollen ersetzen
    entity: sensor.kartoffelsauger_cleanuprolls_replace
    color: Green
    width: 50%
    text: day(s)
    severity:
      - value: 8 months
        color: Yellow
      - value: 9 months
        color: Red

The first one is the creation of Entities. The entered sensor entities does not exists thats correct, then I click on "Create" and the bar becomes green, but after a reload its blue with this message again.

What can I do against this?

The second problem is that the text shows "less than 1 undefined" even after I entered the "text" value. Is this problem related to the first?

Greetings Marco

[shinn5112]

I am having the same exact issue. It appears that an MQTT entry is created, however, the time stamp is invalid. This is my config

type: 'custom:check-button-card'
title: Brushes
entity: sensor.naomi_brushes
text: month(s)
color: Green
severity:
  - value: 6 months
    color: Red
  - value: 4 months
    color: Yellow

This is the corresponding MQTT data that is sent when I click the button

{
"timestamp_friendly":"Invalid Date",
"severity":[
    {
      "value":"6 months",
      "color":"Red",
      "seconds":15778476
    },
    {
      "value":"4 months",
      "color":"Yellow",
      "seconds":10518984
    }
  ]
}

Any suggestions?

[codeclinic]

@DunklerPhoenix Since things don't appear to be very active around here... Might I suggest that you somehow redue the number of potatoes that need sucking up? This would eliminate your problem by removing the need to monitor your Kartoffelsauger.

[Smoetzak]

Any update on this? This worked fine for a couple of days, now I have the exact same issue. The payload is send correctly to mqtt, but for some reason homeassistant can't read these anymore.

This is my mqtt payload: {"timestamp":1618644019,"timestamp_friendly":"4/17/2021, 9:20:19 AM","severity":[{"value":"4 days","color":"Red","seconds":345600},{"value":"2 days","color":"Orange","seconds":172800}]}

edit: I've found out that he does this after every hass restart.

edit2: The solution was to add discovery to mqtt. So I've used the mqtt integration, and added this to my configuration.yaml

mqtt:
  discovery: true 

[vennekilde]

Had the same issue. All i had to do, was just click on it to give it a timestamp to compare with. I assume when you create it, that the timestamp is undefined, hence the error

This also happens if your mqtt server does not have persistence, e.g. data is lost after restarts, basically mimicking the problem above, but no way to fix it without deleting the entity in HA first.