Duplicate Sensors

PierreScerri · July 15, 2021, 8:21am

The Macos app has these 2 sensors:

They both have the same attributes. What is the difference and why are there 2 sensors?

paddy0174 · July 15, 2021, 9:59am

A binary_sensor has only on/off state where a sensor has a state that is a value of some kind.

PierreScerri · July 15, 2021, 1:20pm

I understand the difference between a binary sensor and a sensor.

These 2 sensors have exactly the same attributes. Why are there 2 of them?