Binary-sensor group isn't available in automations

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I’m trying to group all of my moisture sensors into a single group to make it easier to create an automation using them.

I went to Helpers and created a binary sensor group, gave it a name “All Leak Sensors”, and set it to show as a moisture sensor. However, it doesn’t show up as a device (either in triggers or conditions). I can see the entity if I switch from Device to State, but I can’t figure out what value to test for (I tried “0”, “1”, “true”, “false”, “on”, “off”).

How is one expected to reference sensor groups from automations?

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It doesn’t show up as a device because it isn’t a device… it’s an entity.

So, use a State trigger. While the terminology is confusing, binary sensors of different ‘device classes’ may have specialized outward expressions of their state i.e. wet, dry, open , closed. However, as far as your State trigger or condition is concerned, they all have the same 4 valid states: ‘on’, ‘off’, ‘unavailable’, and ‘unknown’. See the blue Note box on
the Automation Triggers page