Xiaomi Miio vacuum: change unit_of_measurement for sensors "brush_left", "filter_left", "sensor_dirty_left"

[ildar170975]

The problem

Starting from 2021.11.0 the following parameters were available from sensors (not from attributes as they were before):

• main brush left;
• side brush left;
• filter left;
• sensor dirty left.

Earlier these parameters were measured in "hours", now the unit is "seconds" which does not make any sense.
Now I have to use template sensors to represent these parameters in hours.

I propose to change unit to "hours".

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2021.11.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Xiaomi miio

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/xiaomi_miio/#xiaomi-mi-robot-vacuum

Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[hmmbob]

Issue is already raised, and part of architecture discussion. See #58923 (comment) (especially 'edit 2').

[rytilahti]

Let's keep this issue open until this gets a closure. I personally agree that there should be no need for second granularity on any of the sensors in the integration. Besides the fact that the data is polled less often than that, it also causes (imo) unnecessary state machine updates.

[Draluak]

I guess the unit for "last_clean_duration" and "total_duration" shouldn't be seconds either.

[pdobrien3]

I am on 2021.12.0b0 and sensors still reporting in seconds. I was under the impression that would change? Is this issue being tracked elsewhere?

[zhazell]

I'm on 2021.12.7 and same thing. Sensors reporting in seconds

[pdobrien3]

I really hate to whine. It is not my go to, but this change was just stupid. I am sure there was a reason that made sense somewhere. I just gave up and made template sensors to change all my entities from seconds to hours.

[zhazell]

Same. Did that this afternoon until it’s resolved. Back to normal

[YSmetana]

Same boat guys. The seconds are unusable for me.

[rytilahti]

You should create separate template sensors to get the wanted values, see the thread starting from #59092 (comment) - if you are using a some lovelace card to display the data, please report to the card developer that they should use the native_measurement_unit and convert the data for display as they see fit.