Some numerical sensors interpreted by Home Assistant as strings

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Describe the bug
Some numerical sensors, including but possibly not limited to the following, are being interpreted by Home Assistant as strings:

• Offline uncorrectable errors
• UDMA CRC errors
• Start/stop count
• Load cycle count

Expected behavior
These should be interpreted as numbers.

Environment
HA:
Installation method
Home Assistant OS
Core
2026.8.2
Supervisor
2026.07.5
Operating System
18.2
Frontend
20260729.7

• SMART Sniffer integration version:

• 0.5.16

• Agent version: (check with curl http://<host>:9099/api/health)

• 0.5.16

• Agent OS: (e.g., Proxmox, Ubuntu, macOS, Windows)

• macOS

• Drive type: (ATA/SATA SSD, ATA/SATA HDD, NVMe, USB)
  USB