final commit before switching home

virtualsensors.py

@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ import time
 from logger_interface import LoggerInterface
 
 class VirtualSensorBase:
-    def __init__(self,ad_api,logger_interface, virtual_sensor_name = None, sensor_name = None,super_entity_id = None, yaml_block = None,templates_library = None, constants = None,self_initialize = False):
-        assert yaml_block
+    def __init__(self,ad_api,logger_interface, virtual_sensor_name = None, sensor_name = None,super_entity_id = None, yaml_block = None,templates_library = None, constants = None,self_initialize = False):        
         self.ad_api = ad_api
         self.logger_interface = logger_interface
 
@@ -26,14 +25,18 @@ class VirtualSensorBase:
             self.virtual_sensor_name = sensor_name.split('.')[1]
         self.sensor_domain = self.sensor_name.split(".")[0]
 
+        assert yaml_block ,f"{self.sensor_name} have a null Yaml block"
         self.yaml_block = yaml_block
         self.templates_library = templates_library
 
         try: self.attributes = self.yaml_block['attributes']
         except (TypeError,KeyError): self.attributes = dict()
 
-        if constants: self.constants = dict(constants) # we don't want to modify the parent dict
+        if constants: 
+            self.constants = dict(constants) # we don't want to modify the parent dict
+            self.constants['self'] = self.sensor_name # we need to set self by ourself
         else: self.constants = {'self' : self.sensor_name }
+
         if super_entity_id != None:
             self.constants['super'] = super_entity_id
 
@@ -669,4 +672,4 @@ class VirtualSensors():
 class VirtualSensorsApp(hass.Hass):
     def initialize(self):
         self.logger_interface = LoggerInterface(self.get_ad_api(),default_log = "virtualsensors_log")
-        self.virtual_sensors = VirtualSensors(ad_api = self.get_ad_api(),logger_interface = self.logger_interface,yaml_block = self.args,args_to_ignore_in_validation = ['module','class','global_dependencies','priority'])
+        self.virtual_sensors = VirtualSensors(ad_api = self.get_ad_api(),logger_interface = self.logger_interface,yaml_block = self.args,args_to_ignore_in_validation = ['module','class','global_dependencies','priority','name','config_path'])