Cant use more than one template sensor

Configuration
1

so i tried to make template sensors that used the “place” attribute to make a new sensor that had the value of the place attribute of a life360 device tracker. for some reason only one sensor is created as an entity. am i allowed to make more than one template sensor? heres the code


# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

#template:
#  - sensor:
#      - name: "carverlocation"
#        state: "{{state_attr('device_tracker.life360_carver_fell', 'place')}}"

#template:
#  - sensor:
#      - name: "tomlocation"
#        state: "{{state_attr('device_tracker.life360_thomas_margotta', 'place')}}"

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "templatesensortest"
        state: "{{ state_attr('device_tracker.life360_thomas_margotta', 'place') }}"

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "carverplace"
        state: "{{ state_attr('device_tracker.life360_carver_fell', 'place') }}"

#template:
#  - sensor:
#      - name: "tomplace"
#        state: "{{ state_attr('device_tracker.life360_thomas_margotta', 'place') }}"

notify:
        - name: pushover
          platform: pushover
          api_key: !secret pushoverapikey
          user_key: !secret pushoveruserkeyop6

sensor:
  - platform: xbox_live
    api_key: !secret xbapi
    xuid:
      - !secret xbusr

im not sure whats wrong but sometimes it changes which one works

2

The reason is because you have multiple template: keys in the file. There should only be one and all Template Sensors are defined under it.

Each additional instance of template: effectively overwrites the previous one.

3

ohhh i see, the template: thing is the platform or whatever and you have to list all them under that. my bad.

4

It’s the domain (platform is a term for something else). Other domains are light, switch, fan, lock, etc.

5

oh ok. im gonna have to read more about this.

6

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