date.* event.* are reported as missing

[h3llrais3r]

Any idea why some date functions seem to be marked as missing entities?

This is happening since the last upgrade, but I have no idea where to look for this...

[twmcelroy]

Are these helpers? I am seeing many helpers marked as missing in version 0.6.5 and HA Core 11.2

[dummylabs]

Yep, date was added as a platform in recent version along with a few helpers.
@h3llrais3r @jhemak could you provide a snippet of Lovelace code which triggers WM? Thanks in advance.

As a temporary workaround date can be added to ignored items in WM config.

[dummylabs]

I've tested the latest version a bit. WM does not trigger for occurrences like this:
parseInt((Date.now() - Date.parse(x)) / 3600000);
However, if you have a variable named date and use it as date.something, WM will consider it as a date entity.

If this is your case, the solution could be to rename the variable so that it differs from "date".

[Mariusthvdb]

seeing a related issue on event

can this be added here, on would you require a separate issue tracker for it.

Ive renamed variables to non reserved words for some of the events, but there is an actual event for the folder_watcher that is still triggering the Watchman logic

[dummylabs]

@Mariusthvdb Since events do not have persistent states besides unknown, they should be removed from the watching list. This will be addressed in a future fix. Not sure about date.* yet.

[dummylabs]

Fix is available in 0.7.0 beta, can be downloaded via HACS.

[h3llrais3r]

Yep, date was added as a platform in recent version along with a few helpers. @h3llrais3r @jhemak could you provide a snippet of Lovelace code which triggers WM? Thanks in advance.

As a temporary workaround date can be added to ignored items in WM config.

So it's probably coming from this part?
@dummylabs If I rename the variable, it should also be fixed, right?
EDIT: just tested it, but after a rename, it still reports it as missing

PS: Thanks for the fix anyway!

[dummylabs]

Reopen the issue to increase its visibility to users.