Binary Sensor not showing up in web server

ESPHome
1

I have a binary_sensor.


  - name: "Right bank selected" # Changeover switch on control panel
    id: right_bank_selected
    platform: gpio # homeassistant #gpio
    # entity_id: input_boolean.test_right_bank_selected # Change to pin: after comissioning
    pin: ${right_bank_selected_pin}
    on_press:
      then:
        - binary_sensor.template.publish:
            id: left_bank_selected
            state: OFF

When platform is template, it doesn’t show up in the web server.

When platform is gpio, it shows up.

Is this by design?

2

Post your yaml for the template sensor as well. Did you give it a name?

4

Here’s the two together:

  - name: "Right bank in use" # From reed switch in changeover valve. Change to gpio platform after commisioninig
    id: right_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve
    platform: homeassistant # gpio
    # pin: ${left_bank_in_use_pin}
    entity_id: input_boolean.test_right_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve
    on_press:
      then:
        lambda: |-
          id(left_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve).publish_state(false);


  - name: "Left bank in use" # From reed switch in changeover valve. Change to gpio platform after commisioninig
    id: left_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve
    platform: homeassistant # gpio
    # pin: ${left_bank_in_use_pin}
    entity_id: input_boolean.test_left_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve
    on_press:
      then:
        lambda: |-
          id(right_bank_in_use_from_changeover_valve).publish_state(false);

I have the same issue with this pair:

  - name: "Right bank selected" # Changeover switch on control panel
    id: right_bank_selected
    platform: homeassistant #gpio
    entity_id: input_boolean.test_right_bank_selected # Change to pin: after comissionin
    # pin: ${right_bank_selected_pin}
    on_press:
      then:
        lambda: |-
          id(left_bank_selected).publish_state(false);


  - name: "Left bank selected" # Changeover switch on control panel
    id: left_bank_selected
    platform: homeassistant #gpio
    entity_id: input_boolean.test_left_bank_selected # Change to pin: after comissioning
    # pin: ${left_bank_selected_pin}
    on_press:
      then:
        lambda: |-
          id(right_bank_selected).publish_state(false);
5

They are not template sensors but homeassistant sensors. (or maybe homeassistant binary sensors, who knows, you don’t show it).
Read the last note here:

What are you trying to accomplish?

6

Thank you. I appreciate your time.

The internal: false fixed it.

I am using HA dashboard entities to test out the ESPHome config without having to connect hardware.

Configuring it the way I have I don’t need to rewrite so much once the hardware is available.