Convert Garage "cover" to binary sensor output

Configuration
1

I’m trying to group my garage cover sensor and a binary motion sensor for lighting automation. In order to do this, I’m trying to create a binary sensor that is operated by the garage door cover. It seems easy but I just can’t get it to work. Here’s what I have:

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: BigGarageDoorBinarySensor
        state: >
          {% if is_state('cover.house_big_door', 'opened') %}
            on
          {% else %}
            off
          {% endif %}
2

I did something similar, except for door locks. I went about it slightly differently, but I think the major issue you have is the extra spaces that could be showing up in your output. Here’s how I went about it:

- binary_sensor:
    - name: "Office Door Status"
      state: >-
        {%- if states("lock.office_door") == "locked" -%}
          false
        {%- else -%}
          true
        {%- endif -%}

I have this in a config/templates.yaml file and in my standard configuration.yaml I have this line:

template: !include templates.yaml

In the template, note the use of >- and all of the {%- and -%} which cause the templates to strip leading and trailing white spaces

3

Thanks for the suggestions! Come to find out that my state data label was incorrect. The HASS UI for the MyQ shows “Opened” for the status. When I looked at the state information in the developer area, the data in the state label was “open” instead of “Opened”.

I appreciate the added info about splitting the template file out of the configuration file. I totally missed that and was setting myself up to have a very messy coding experience.

4

This works for me:

template:
  - binary_sensor:
    - name: 'Garage door left'
      device_class: garage_door
      state: "{{ is_state('cover.garage_door_left', 'open') }}"