core: Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs

The problem

Plenty of errors in HA log (for EVERY command_line sensor):

Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx already exists - ignoring sensor.xxx

after reloading command line sensors in the dev-tools section, even ALL command_line sensors do have a unique_id assigned according to https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.command_line/#unique_id.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.6.7

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Command line Sensor

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.command_line/#unique_id

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: homeassistant.components.sensor
Source: helpers/entity_platform.py:598
Integration: Sensor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 18:09:38 (24 occurrences)
Last logged: 18:10:36

Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID 6f03a5d6-b32c-473d-a21b-69fd82ed4b4d already exists - ignoring sensor.statistics_devices_integration_shelly
Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID b5b46f06-23ca-4a31-8b53-52e34d56aa67 already exists - ignoring sensor.statistics_devices_integration_mobileapp
Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID a394d0b9-6e6a-4cc5-b65e-f0f8d807c70f already exists - ignoring sensor.statistics_devices_enabled
Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID a70a1cb4-fbe0-4974-a355-bb0b777070e3 already exists - ignoring sensor.statistics_blueprints
Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. ID 2af57d9b-f3cd-46fa-9aeb-ae5d046926b1 already exists - ignoring sensor.statistics_devices_integration_ipp

Additional information

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/platform-command-line-does-not-generate-unique-ids/474134

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 26 (16 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I just went through the manual migration process, and reloading the command line entities no longer generates warnings.

pedropombeiro on Jun 7, 2023

i can confirm, that reloading the command line entities does produce the Platform command_line does not generate unique IDs. error — if command line sensors are defined in packages. in addition i observed that reloading the command line entities sets the polling interval of command line sensors (that are defned in packages) to a few seconds. since i have one command line sensor that calls a script that is heavy on CPU usage, usally every 300 seconds. after reloading the command line entities this script is called every 2-5 seconds, which can only be mitigated by restarting home assistant. (ha core 2023.05.2)

diplix on May 7, 2023

I’ll try to reproduce this week

johntdyer on Nov 28, 2022

I am seeing the same on 2022.11.1, I also have distinct unique IDs assigned to each sensor.

pedropombeiro on Nov 6, 2022

That makes the issue description more clear, thanks! 👍

frenck on Oct 12, 2022

In case of the commandline integration, you are the one providing those unique IDs in the YAML configurations. The message would indicate you have created duplicates.

Yes, I did provide them. E. g.

  - platform: command_line
    name: Statistics Devices Integration Shelly
    unique_id: 6f03a5d6-b32c-473d-a21b-69fd82ed4b4d
    ...

No, the same unique_id is not used more than once all over all my yaml files. Example: grafik

So that’s the confusing part of these error messages. Only see those when manually reloading command line sensor entities, not after restarting HA.

bcutter on Oct 12, 2022