Exception raised while updating state for `winddir`

[Anto79-ops]

Hey!

thanks for the update. Just updated to 2024.6.0 and this is flooding my HA Core 2024.6.0b5 logs.

cheers

Logger: homeassistant.components.mqtt.models
Source: components/mqtt/models.py:380
integration: MQTT (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 9:54:40 PM (10 occurrences)
Last logged: 9:56:39 PM

Exception raised while updating state of sensor.gw2000_winddir_name, topic: 'homeassistant/sensor/[REDACTED]/winddir_name/state' with payload: b'NW'
Exception raised while updating state of sensor.gw1100_winddir_name, topic: 'homeassistant/sensor/[REDACTED]/winddir_name/state' with payload: b'N'
Exception raised while updating state of sensor.gw1100_winddir_name, topic: 'homeassistant/sensor/[REDACTED]/winddir_name/state' with payload: b'NNW'
Exception raised while updating state of sensor.gw1100_winddir_name, topic: 'homeassistant/sensor/[REDACTED]/winddir_name/state' with payload: b'ENE'
Exception raised while updating state of sensor.gw2000_winddir_name, topic: 'homeassistant/sensor/[REDACTED]/winddir_name/state' with payload: b'NNW'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/sensor/__init__.py", line 658, in state
    numerical_value = int(value)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'N'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/sensor/__init__.py", line 661, in state
    numerical_value = float(value)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'N'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/mqtt/models.py", line 380, in process_write_state_requests
    entity.async_write_ha_state()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 1000, in async_write_ha_state
    self._async_write_ha_state()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 1126, in _async_write_ha_state
    state, attr, capabilities, shadowed_attr = self.__async_calculate_state()
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 1061, in __async_calculate_state
    state = self._stringify_state(available)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 1006, in _stringify_state
    if (state := self.state) is None:
                 ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/sensor/__init__.py", line 665, in state
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: Sensor sensor.gw2000_winddir_name has device class 'None', state class 'measurement' unit 'None' and suggested precision 'None' thus indicating it has a numeric value; however, it has the non-numeric value: 'N' (<class 'str'>)

[bachya]

Thanks, @Anto79-ops! Just cut 2024.06.1, which includes a fix for this.

[Anto79-ops]

thank you! that seems to have fixed it: the new entity is now reporting wind direction, and my logs have stopped logging the above error.

Cheers bud