Virtual sensors in Hass

@Taaamten wrote:

Hi
Been running an old version of Hassbian with home assistant but after getting a Pi4 I also upgraded the Home Assistant and is now running Hass.io v 0.103.0.
I’ve moved around my tradfri lights from tradfri bridge to hue, and all buttons, remotes etc to deconz.
So far all is ok, but when I tried to integrate my virtual sensors I used Before I can’t get them to work.
I have a bunch of input_select: boxes set for different light scenes and states for presence detections and corresponding virtual sensors checking the status of the input select boxes. By checking these sensors I could trigger automations depending on the the Choice of the input_selection box.
Now these sensors never show up.

examplke of the input_select, that actually works:

input_select:
  farstun_scene_status_dropdown:
    name: 'Farstuns Scener'
    options:
      - 'Dag'
      - 'Natt'
      - 'Av'
    initial: 'Av'

The status of the selection was detected by this:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
       farstun_scene_status:
        value_template: '{{ states.input_select.farstun_scene_status_dropdown.state }}'
        friendly_name: 'Scener i farstun'

Reading up on this I know it is better to format the template as states(…) but the problem is that I can’t get the system to add this sensor at all. Any Idea to how to solve this?

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