Binary sensor ping not working?

Configuration
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Hello. I have a problem with setting up a binary sensor with ping. This is my yaml:

configuration.yaml:

binary_sensor: !include binary_sensor.yaml

binary_sensor.yaml:

########## binary_sensor.yaml ##########

# TV On Detection
  - platform: ping
    name: SalonTV
    scan_interval: 1
    host: 192.168.1.69

And log looks like this

journalctl -u home-assistant | grep ping
Feb 26 18:02:21 DietPi systemd[1]: Stopping Home Assistant...
Feb 26 18:02:38 DietPi homeassistant-start.sh[13436]: 2018-02-26 18:02:38 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Loaded binary_sensor.ping from homeassistant.components.binary_sensor.ping
Feb 26 18:02:38 DietPi homeassistant-start.sh[13436]: 2018-02-26 18:02:38 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Setting up binary_sensor.ping

Theres no more info about this sensor, and its reporting offline constantly

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Which is weird, because host is up

Any clues what is going on? Please help me.
I want to track my Android TV. Maybe you have some other idea how to acheive this?
In fact, setting this up as device_tracker works, but I do not like the way how it presents the data: home, not home. Device tracker is not intendent to do stuff like that

2

If using an !include file you don’t need the leading two spaces.

# TV On Detection
- platform: ping
  name: SalonTV
  scan_interval: 1
  host: 192.168.1.69
3

Have you tried manually pinging it? What is the response? Some devices don’t reply to pings. (my nest and alexa for example)

4

This shouldn’t effect the operation, all my files start with two indentations and work fine with !include.

5

Yes, I know, It’s by design :slight_smile: To get a better output when grep’ping all yaml’s :slight_smile:

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Definitely, the sensor shows itself on UI so I assume that the config is okay. IN face, I have many separate yaml’s, each preceded with the same heading and everything works. Only this ping sensor do not want to work

7

Yes, as I said, the host is responding, response times are arounf ~1-3 miliseconds. I’m not home right now so the tv is turned off. I changed the IP to router’s IP and it still shows as unavailable.

 ping 192.168.1.254
PING 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.767 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.756 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.855 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.757 ms
8

Maybe scan interval 1 is too frequent? Try with at least 10.

9

How did you manage to solve it? It looks like I’m having the same issues…