Binary Sensor invert property

Feature Requests
1

Introduce “invert” boolean property to binary sensors. When invert: true, the value is inverted so that true is false and false is true.

2

Bump :slight_smile: I really think this is a useful feature!

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3

Yes that would be very usefull for me too. Please introduce ‘invert’ property of binary sensors.

4

That would be useful, indeed.

5

Absolutely!

6

Seems I’m not alone :slight_smile:

7

+1 as well

8

Funny, you can’t even use a filter sensor for this, since it looks like it consists of numeric operations only.

I think it would be nice if there was some standard behavior that’s inherited for all sensor (and binary_sensor) entities that included the filtering capability, rather than having yet more entities floating around. Then you could easily invert binary_sensor values, convert between imperial and metric units and do other transformations. This sort of capability is done in ESPHome and it has turned out to be really handy.

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Sorry but for a binary sensor you can use a template to define the state.
The template contains the logic you require the sensor to operate under.
By sticking a ‘not’ in front of this logic you have immediately inverted it.
Have I missed something ?

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Sorry but for a binary sensor you can use a template to define the state.
The template contains the logic you require the sensor to operate under.
By sticking a ‘not’ in front of this logic you have immediately inverted it.

You mean crate a binary template sensor? Or am I missing something? Is what you’re describing documented anywhere?

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I’m pretty sure there is another thread regarding the inversion of covers. This one is for binary sensors