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Trend Instructions on how to integrate Trend binary sensors into Home Assistant.
Binary Sensor
Utility
0.28 Local Push internal trend
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integration

The trend platform allows you to create sensors which show the trend of numeric state orstate_attributes from other entities. This sensor requires at least two updates of the underlying sensor to establish a trend. Thus it can take some time to show an accurate state. It can be useful as part of automations, where you want to base an action on a trend.

Configuration

To enable Trend binary sensors in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: trend
    sensors:
      cpu_speed:
        entity_id: sensor.cpu_speed

{% configuration %} sensors: description: List of your sensors. required: true type: map keys: entity_id: description: The entity that this sensor tracks. required: true type: string attribute: description: > The attribute of the entity that this sensor tracks. If no attribute is specified then the sensor will track the state. required: false type: string device_class: description: Sets the class of the device, changing the device state and icon that is displayed on the frontend. required: false type: string friendly_name: description: Name to use in the Frontend. required: false type: string invert: description: > Invert the result. A true value would mean descending rather than ascending. required: false type: boolean default: false max_samples: description: Limit the maximum number of stored samples. required: false type: integer default: 2 min_gradient: description: > The minimum rate at which the observed value must be changing for this sensor to switch on. The gradient is measured in sensor units per second. required: false type: string default: 0.0 sample_duration: description: > The duration in seconds to store samples for. Samples older than this value will be discarded. required: false type: integer default: 0 {% endconfiguration %}

Using Multiple Samples

If the optional sample_duration and max_samples parameters are specified then multiple samples can be stored and used to detect long-term trends.

Each time the state changes, a new sample is stored along with the sample time. Samples older than sample_duration seconds will be discarded. The max_samples parameter must be large enough to store sensor updates over the requested duration. If you want to trend over two hours and your sensor updates every 120s then max_samples must be at least 60, i.e., 7200/120 = 60.

A trend line is then fitted to the available samples, and the gradient of this line is compared to min_gradient to determine the state of the trend sensor. The gradient is measured in sensor units per second - so if you want to know when the temperature is falling by 2 degrees per hour, use a gradient of (-2) / (60 x 60) = -0.00055

The current number of stored samples is displayed on the States page.

Examples

In this section you find some real-life examples of how to use this sensor.

This example indicates true if the sun is still rising:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: trend
    sensors:
      sun_rising:
        entity_id: sun.sun
        attribute: elevation

This example creates two sensors to indicate whether the temperature is rising or falling at a rate of at least 3 degrees an hour, and collects samples over a two hour period:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: trend
    sensors:
      temp_falling:
        entity_id: sensor.outside_temperature
        sample_duration: 7200
        max_samples: 120
        min_gradient: -0.0008
        device_class: cold

      temp_rising:
        entity_id: sensor.outside_temperature
        sample_duration: 7200
        max_samples: 120
        min_gradient: 0.0008
        device_class: heat