I have no idea if this will help anyone or not but here goes anyway…
First let’s imagine that you don’t use any !include in your configuration.yaml. So everything is contained in that one file.
if you have the old style templates in your configuration.yaml file will look like this:
binary_sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
my_first_binary_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
my_second_binary_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Other Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
my_first_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Sensor Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
my_second_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Other Sensor Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
cover:
- platform: template
covers:
my_first_cover:
friendly_name: Some Cover Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
my_second_cover:
friendly_name: Some Other Cover Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
etc
etc
to convert those to the new style templates you simply (and I mean simply…) do this:
(NOTE: default_entity_id: isn’t required. you only need it if you want to keep the same entity_id as the old sensor. Without it tyhe new entity _id will be the same as the name but all lower case with an underscore instead of spaces)
template:
- binary_sensor:
- default_entity_id: binary_sensor.my_first_binary_sensor
name: Some Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
- default_entity_id: binary_sensor.my_second_binary_sensor:
name: Some Other Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
- sensor:
- default_entity_id: sensor.my_first_sensor
name: Some Sensor Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
- default_entity_id: sensor.my_second_sensor
name: Some Other Sensor Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
- cover:
- default_entity_id: cover.my_first_cover
name: Some Cover Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
- default_entity_id: cover.my_second_cover
name: Some Other Cover Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
etc
etc
if you use !includes then you configuration.yaml will look like this before (for example):
binary_sensor: !include binary_sensors.yaml
sensor: !include sensors.yaml
cover: !include covers.yaml
then in the included yaml files:
binary_sensors.yaml:
- platform: template
sensors:
my_first_binary_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
my_second_binary_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Other Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
sensors.yaml:
- platform: template
sensors:
my_first_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Sensor Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
my_second_sensor:
friendly_name: Some Other Sensor Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
covers.yaml:
- platform: template
covers:
my_first_cover:
friendly_name: Some Cover Name
value_template: "{{ my template }}"
my_second_cover:
friendly_name: Some Other Cover Name
value_template: "{{ my next template }}"
icon_template: "{{ my icon template }}"
then to use the new style templates using one single included file your configuration.yaml will look like this (for example):
binary_sensor: !include binary_sensors.yaml
sensor: !include sensors.yaml
cover: !include covers.yaml
template: !include templates.yaml
then in templates.yaml:
- binary_sensor:
- default_entity_id: binary_sensor.my_first_binary_sensor
name: Some Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
- default_entity_id: binary_sensor.my_second_binary_sensor:
name: Some Other Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
- sensor:
- default_entity_id: sensor.my_first_sensor
name: Some Sensor Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
- default_entity_id: sensor.my_second_sensor
name: Some Other Sensor Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
- cover:
- default_entity_id: cover.my_first_cover
name: Some Cover Name
state: "{{ my template }}"
- default_entity_id: cover.my_second_cover
name: Some Other Cover Name
state: "{{ my next template }}"
icon: "{{ my icon template }}"
If you use packages or directories then it’s very much the same but I don’t have time to do the conversion examples in this post.
