Add to Ping Binary Sensor availability template like in Template Sensor
availability [template] (optional, default: true)
Defines a template to get the
availablestate of the component. If the template returnstrue, the device isavailable. If the template returns any other value, the device will beunavailable. If not configured, the component will always beavailable.
Reason: some my ping sensors check connection to other servers behind the VPN connection. But if something wrong with internet or vpn I will receive errors about unresolved host names and so on. With this feature it would be possible use other ping sensor for checking connection and disable updates if it isn’t reachable.