Ecowitt integration - incorrectly typed sensor

[jefft4]

The problem

Ecowitt sensor hourly_rain_rate is typed as total_increasing. It is a point-in-time measure that resets each hour, so that's not the correct type. It should be just an ordinary number value.

Logger: homeassistant.components.sensor.recorder
Source: components/sensor/recorder.py:288
Integration: Sensor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 19 December 2023 at 10:15:10 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 19 December 2023 at 10:15:10

Entity sensor.gw1100a_v2_2_3_hourly_rain_rate_2 from integration ecowitt has state class total_increasing, but its state is not strictly increasing. Triggered by state 2.1 (2.3) with last_updated set to 2023-12-19T10:10:28.721770+00:00. Please create a bug report at https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22integration%3A+ecowitt%22

Entity state:
state_class: total_increasing unit_of_measurement: mm device_class: precipitation friendly_name: Weather station Hourly Rain Rate

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2023.12.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Ecowitt

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ecowitt/

Diagnostics information

ecowitt-617efd866d4bd634ff5895a02438e592-GW1100A-5ecc1f91bd26ef0d2df35f60d5c494a7.json.txt

Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[sam-ward]

There is a pending PR that fixes the issue in the upstream library (#102738) . Just waiting on the maintainer to merge it.

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