homeassistant-powercalc: upon restart, many (light) sensors show unavailable

System Health details

no powercalc system health available, as all yaml, and no powercalc integration panel is displayed in the integrations overview

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Describe the issue

even though my main config is set to show 0 in those cases:

powercalc:
  enable_autodiscovery: false
  energy_sensor_naming: '{} device energy'
  power_sensor_naming: '{} device power'
  ignore_unavailable_state: true
  energy_sensor_precision: 2
  unavailable_power: 0
  create_utility_meters: true
  utility_meter_types:
    - daily
    - yearly

  sensors:

using a pure yaml config.At first I believed it to be influenced by turning on/off eg a light, but that didnt make sense, it simply should not do that. It does however, turning on several of the lights, immediately makes them have the device_energy sensors get a state.

the issue also happens for non discovered entities like:

    - entity_id: device_tracker.airport_express_water
      fixed:
        power: 4.1

but they seems to get a value after a minute. Not so for these entities in the screenshot (and a huge amount of others that didnt fit in there…)

during this writeup, those have now also started showing their value, which is happening after 11 minutes of uptime, and reproducible.

btw, as a side question: could it be the unavailable_power: 0

throws off the utility_meter entities, and the energy panel in HA for that matter, resetting the state_class on energy sensors? Ive seen that a lot lately, and now writing this issue, suddenly realize this might be related? Would it be better to have these sensors be ‘unavailable’ and even though a bit ugly I the dashboard, not have them mess with the internal calculations?

To my understanding the unavailable_power: 0 is in fact only used on those power sensors, and should not interfere at all with energy sensors?

Reproduction steps

1. restart

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Debug logs

return to this later

Diagnostics dump or YAML config

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