Error in Garadget docs?

Configuration
1

The configuration.yaml suggested in the documentation doesn’t parse as valid yaml. In particular, this sensor section:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      garage_door_status:
        friendly_name: 'State of the door'
        value_template: '{{ states('cover.garage_door') }}'

Both doesn’t work in HA, and fails in various YAML checkers, with: (): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 13 column 9

The use of nested single parenthesis looks suspect, but I’m not sure exactly what the issue is here.

2

Where is this example given in the docs?

Look closely at what the single quotes enclose.

This:

'{{ states('

And this:

') }}'

Solution, put double quotes around the whole thing and single quotes inside.

value_template: "{{ states('cover.garage_door') }}"

The other option is to use a multi-line template as they are not quoted:

value_template: >
  {{ states('cover.garage_door') }}
3

Yeah, I didn’t think that could be right.

4

Thanks for the link. Fix submitted: Corrected template examples by tomlut · Pull Request #10114 · home-assistant/home-assistant.io · GitHub

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