[Suggestion] Combine into one sensor with more attributes for different hours about homeassistant-eloverblik HOT 2 CLOSED

I don't think I will implement this as this break backwards compatibility. Further I don't see any issue in having multiple entities in HA. You don't have to display them all on the dashboard.

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I don't show any of them in the dashboard (only used in the background), but they're still in the States overview. I do, however, see that the HA devs are trying to limit the amount of data in attributes (as they answered my comment here), so I think your approach is probably what they'd prefer.

The main argument (aesthetics of the states tab aside) is what I argued in that thread: It's very difficult to work with from the UI - especially on mobile - when you have many entities with very similar names (on mobile you can't see the end o the name, so you don't know which of the 24 your are selecting). I'd think that anywhere on the dashboard you'd want to use all these for would probably be a series anyway (e.g. for the Apexcharts card), where it's actually much easier to have one entity with the different times in attributes.

series:
  - entity: sensor.nordpool_kwh_dk2_dkk_3_095_0
    name: Today
    data_generator: |
      return entity.attributes.raw_today.map((entry) => {
        return [new Date(entry.start), entry.value];
      });
    type: column
    show:
      legend_value: false
      in_header: false
  - entity: sensor.nordpool_kwh_dk2_dkk_3_095_0
    name: Tomorrow
    data_generator: |
      return entity.attributes.raw_tomorrow.map((entry) => {
        return [new Date(entry.start), entry.value];
      });
    type: column
    show:
      legend_value: false
      in_header: false

to do this with the 48 hours of prices in the nordpool sensor and the apexcharts card:

That said, it's of course completely up to you, so I'll close and just say thanks for the integration. I'm mainly suggesting based on personal preference of a "cleaner" entity overview (not dashboard) and being able to edit cards on mobile in bed anyway :) And I agree that the backwards compatibility is a good point.

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