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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughESPHome sensor definitions add configurable decimal precision and an optional reporting mode. In that mode, filters report initial values, values that meet configured change thresholds, and values when the one-hour heartbeat is due. The firmware version also changes. ChangesSensor Reporting
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new Reduce DB Reporting option is off by default, and existing reporting behavior is unchanged. When a user turns it on, a sensor that becomes unavailable can keep showing its last valid reading in Home Assistant and on the device for up to an hour. Fixing this is a small, recommended follow-up, but it does not block the default configuration. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 1 system. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review detailsSystems and components
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- Around line 345-348: Update the reduced-reporting filters at all listed sensor
sites to report a valid-to-NaN transition immediately, without treating every
NaN sample as a first report. Compare the NaN status of x and
last_reported_value to detect a validity change, preserve normal first-report
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| const bool is_first_report = isnan(last_reported_value); | ||
| const bool has_meaningful_change = abs(x - last_reported_value) >= ${co2_reporting_delta}; | ||
| const bool heartbeat_due = now - last_report_time >= ${reduced_reporting_heartbeat_ms}; | ||
| if (is_first_report || has_meaningful_change || heartbeat_due) { |
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Report a transition to NAN when reduced reporting is enabled.
When reduce_db_reporting is on, this filter drops a NAN input if the last reported value was valid:
abs(NAN - last_reported_value) >= deltais false.is_first_reportis false.- The value is only reported once
heartbeat_duebecomes true.
So a sensor that becomes unavailable keeps showing its last valid value in Home Assistant for up to one hour. sen5x publishes NAN for invalid readings. x - id(sen55_temperature_offset).state and x - id(sen55_humidity_offset).state pass that NAN through. The on-device consumers also keep the stale value. These are update_air_quality_led and the aqi inputs pm_2_5 / pm_10_0.
The recovery path already works. A valid value after NAN goes through is_first_report.
The same block is copied at every reduced-reporting filter. Apply the fix at each one:
- CO2: Lines 345-348
- DPS310 pressure and temperature: Lines 384-387 and 409-412
- SEN55 PM1.0, PM2.5, PM4, PM10: Lines 438-441, 464-467, 490-493, 516-519
- SEN55 temperature, humidity, VOC: Lines 543-546, 570-573, 596-599
- Derived PM sensors: Lines 655-658, 688-691, 721-724, 754-757
- MICS4514 gases: Lines 799-802, 825-828, 851-854, 877-880, 903-906, 929-932
The logic is copied in 20 places, so every future fix also needs 20 edits. One shared helper would remove this duplication. You could put it in an esphome: includes: header, for example bool should_report(float x, float &last, uint32_t &last_ms, float delta). Each lambda would then only choose its delta.
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- const bool is_first_report = isnan(last_reported_value);
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| const bool is_first_report = isnan(last_reported_value); | |
| const bool has_meaningful_change = abs(x - last_reported_value) >= ${co2_reporting_delta}; | |
| const bool heartbeat_due = now - last_report_time >= ${reduced_reporting_heartbeat_ms}; | |
| if (is_first_report || has_meaningful_change || heartbeat_due) { | |
| const bool is_first_report = isnan(last_reported_value) || isnan(x); | |
| const bool has_meaningful_change = abs(x - last_reported_value) >= ${co2_reporting_delta}; | |
| const bool heartbeat_due = now - last_report_time >= ${reduced_reporting_heartbeat_ms}; | |
| if (is_first_report || has_meaningful_change || heartbeat_due) { |
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Review comment at @Integrations/ESPHome/Core.yaml around lines 345 - 348:
Update the reduced-reporting filters at all listed sensor sites to report a
valid-to-NaN transition immediately, without treating every NaN sample as a
first report. Compare the NaN status of x and last_reported_value to detect a
validity change, preserve normal first-report and heartbeat behavior, and apply
the same logic consistently across all 20 copies.
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Thanks for this, and for the table. It made the deltas easy to review, and the logic matches what MSR-2 already ships for Reduce DB Reporting.
One change: firmware PRs in our product repos go to beta, not main. Could you change the base branch to beta and rebase onto it? beta has moved ahead in Core.yaml, so expect a conflict or two, and the version bump will need to be newer than whatever beta is on when you rebase.
Once it's on beta we'll build it and take another look.
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One more thing while you're rebasing: the reporting filter is the same lambda pasted 20 times. Could you move it into one file and include it from each sensor? For example, put the lambda in filters:
- !include { file: reduce_filter.yaml, vars: { delta: "${pm_reporting_delta}" } }Please use |
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Reading the table, the thresholds make sense. I question the drive to reduce precision to the specifications, as it's useful to look at the data to understand how much measurement noise there is. (Well, combination of measurement noise and process noise.) Sensors are often more useful than they claim; an example is the Si7021 temperature/humidity sensor, which hazy memory puts at 1C accuracy, but I have it reporting at the meaurement granularity of 0.01C. I can see features at very low deltas that are real, even if absolute cal is off. This is all assuming that the precisions will be always, and the reporting frequency would be once/minute if this is not enabled, and on-demand/1hr if enabled. This also raises the question of how often measurements are taken, even if filtered. That uses power, and causes heating, which will throw off self-heating calibration. Thus I lean to either "measurements are simply every minute, and this avoids reporting if enabled", but if measurements need to be more often (because somebody explains why that actually makes sense to skeptical me) then there should be a "measurement frequency" that is just a number in seconds that is the interval for doing measurements. |
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Summary
Add an opt-in reduced reporting mode for AIR-1 measurements. When enabled, meaningful changes publish immediately while stable values publish at least once per hour. Existing reporting behavior remains the default.
Context
AIR-1 environmental sensors update frequently and can produce a significant share of Home Assistant recorder data. Most small fluctuations add little value, but important air quality changes should remain responsive.
Changes
Measurement Configuration
The table documents how each decimal setting and reporting delta was selected. Reporting deltas apply only when Reduce DB Reporting is enabled, while decimal settings apply regardless of the switch state.
Closes #120
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