Combine Switch and Door-Sensor together

Configuration
1

Hi,

I have an old electrical driven Garage Door. I added now an Fibaro Door Sensor and a Qubino Relay to the Garage Door and now I can control it via home assistant.

It looks now the following:

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The Status of the Door Sensor is “Offen” and “Geschlossen”

Now I tried to setup a cover and added the following to the configuration.yaml

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        friendly_name: "Garagentor Cover"
        position_template: "{{ states('sensor.garage_door') }}"
        open_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        close_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        icon_template: >-
          {% if states('sensor.garage_torstatus') == "Offen"}
            mdi:garage-open
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage
          {% endif %}

I am getting the following error:

2019-02-26 08:15:57 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [cover.template]: invalid template (TemplateSyntaxError: unexpected '}') for dictionary value @ data['covers']['garage_door']['icon_template']. Got '{% if states(\'sensor.garage_torstatus\') == "Offen"}\n mdi:garage-open\n{% else %}\n mdi:garage\n{% endif %}'. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 683). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/cover.template/

Br,
Johannes

2

This line should end with %}.

3

Many thanks,

Now I am getting the following error:

could not convert string to float: 'unknown'

And another stupid question. How do I then add this cover-template to the UI?

Br,
Johannes

4

I assume that this error is related to your position_template. Do you actually have a sensor called sensor.garage_door or is that a copy&paste issue? If you do have that sensor then it will have to return a number between 0 and 100, according to the documentation.

Where does your sensor.garage_torstatus get its value from? Normally, if you have something like a reed sensor that just knows if the door is closed or not, you should have this available as a binary_sensor instead. This in turn could then directly feed into the cover template’s value_template.

Once the cover is defined correctly you should be able to add it into an entities card. The cover will have its own entity id, cover.....

5

Ok, could be my issue.

You are right, I have an binary sensor for that as well:

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would this be then correct?

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        friendly_name: "Garagentor Cover"
        position_template: "{{ states('binary_sensor.fibaro_system_fgdw002_door_opening_sensor_2_sensor') }}"
        open_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        close_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        icon_template: >-
          {% if states('binary_sensor.fibaro_system_fgdw002_door_opening_sensor_2_sensor') == "on"}
            mdi:garage-open
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage
          {% endif %}
6

Replace position_template with value_template.

You should be able to simplify this to:
{% if states('binary_sensor.fibaro_system_fgdw002_door_opening_sensor_2_sensor') }

7

Hi @exxamalte,

I have to revert back my last messages. The mentioned binary_sensor is not true.

Originally it is the follwoing sensor:

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It shows “23” when closed and “22” whewn opened.

then I added the following sensor template:

  garage_torstatus:
    value_template: '{% if states.sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control %}
     {% if states.sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control.state == "23" %}
       Geschlossen
     {% else %}
       Offen
     {% endif %}
     {% else %}
       n/a
     {% endif %}'
    friendly_name: 'Garagentor'
    entity_id: sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control

Br,
Johannes

8

Meaning that it does not exist? Or it doesn’t correctly switch between on == door open, and off == door closed?

So, if your sensor sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control can have two different numeric values indicating whether the garage door is open or closed, I would turn this into a binary_sensor, something like:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      garage_torstatus:
        value_template: "{{ if states.sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control.state == "22" }}"
        friendly_name: "Garagentor"
        device_class: garage_door

I don’t exactly know how this behaves if your sensor is unavailable, i.e. the case you were trying to cover with your surrounding if-statement.

The resulting binary_sensor’s entity id can then be used in the cover’s value_template.

9

@exxamalte

One Step ahead, but still not working.

I have now the following config:

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        friendly_name: "Garagentor Cover"
        value_template: "{{ states('binary_sensor.garage_torstatus_binary') }}"
        open_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        close_cover:
          service: switch.toggle
          data:
            entity_id: switch.qubino_zmnhnd1_flush_1d_relay_switch
        icon_template: >-
          {% if states('binary_sensor.garage_torstatus_binary') == "on" %}
            mdi:garage-open
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage#
          {% endif %}

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      garage_torstatus_binary:
        value_template: >-
          {{ states.sensor.garagentor_kontakt_access_control.state|float == 22 }}
        friendly_name: "Garagentor"
        device_class: garage_door

This delivers me the following binary sensor:

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It is “off” when the garage door is closed and “on”, when opened.

On the log I am getting the following error message:

2019-02-27 08:13:18 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.cover.template] Received invalid cover is_on state: off. Expected: open, closed, true, false

Br,
Johannes

10

Good to see that the binary sensor works as expected. If you add this to an entities card in the UI you should now also get a nice garage door icon and “Geschlossen”/“Offen” as state.

Oh, I thought that the binary sensor can be used as-is, but according to the documentation and this error message, that is not the case.
Try this: value_template: "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.garage_torstatus_binary', 'on') }}"

11

Many thanks!

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Ok, last question:

How do I get the garage icon “yellow” when opened?

Br,
JOhannes

13

I don’t think that this is possible; the icon changes, but the colour doesn’t.
This is how my entities look like when the garage door is open - the top entry is the cover, the bottom one is just the garage door’s reed sensor.

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