Home Assistant, add an offset to a sensor output?

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peejayw

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#289841 2-Oct-2021 15:51

I made a small "weather station" from a Wemos D1 mini and a BME280 sensor to get temperature, pressure and humidity data. It works well but I would rather see the pressure adjusted for sea level rather than the absolute pressure that the sensor provides. At my elevation I need to add 25 hPa to the reading. I dont think this can be done on the sensor itself but is there a way to do it within the card display?

This is what I am using.....

entities:
- sensor.bme280_pressure
group_by: hour
hour24: true
name: Pressure
show:
fill: fade
type: custom:mini-graph-card

Thanks.

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mattenz

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#2788296 2-Oct-2021 15:58

Are you using ESPHome? I would have thought that it would be easier to do it in that.

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#2788298 2-Oct-2021 16:00

Just make a template sensor based on the original sensor and reference that.

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peejayw

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#2788300 2-Oct-2021 16:07

mattenz:

Are you using ESPHome? I would have thought that it would be easier to do it in that.

Yes I am as follows...

esphome:
name: temperature-pressure-humidity
platform: ESP8266
board: d1_mini

# Enable logging
logger:

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:
password: "747106162569653ff5a4ed986b09f717"

wifi:
ssid: "xxx"
password: "yyy"

# Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
ap:
ssid: "Temperature-Pressure-Humidity"
password: "zvdKZDJHPQfU"

captive_portal:

i2c:
# sda: 21
# scl: 22
scan: true
id: bus_a

sensor:
- platform: bme280
temperature:
name: "BME280 Temperature"
oversampling: 16x
pressure:
name: "BME280 Pressure"
humidity:
name: "BME280 Humidity"
update_interval: 60s
i2c_id: bus_a
address: 0x76

Where would I apply the offset here?

Thanks.

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peejayw

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#2788301 2-Oct-2021 16:08

hairy1: Just make a template sensor based on the original sensor and reference that.

OK, not really sure what that all means but will look into it, thanks.

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mattenz

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#2788302 2-Oct-2021 16:08

You can add an offset, see:

https://esphome.io/components/sensor/index.html#offset

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#2788320 2-Oct-2021 16:28

Perfect! Thanks for that, all working now.

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