Fully Kiosk Browser ScreenOn ScreenOff binary sensor

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Hi All,

I managed to add a sensor for FKB to check if motion is detected:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "BRG Fully Motion"
    state_topic: "fully/event/onMotion/MyDeviceID"
    value_template: '{{value_json.type}}'
    payload_on: visual
    off_delay: 10
    device_class: motion

thats cool, but I also would like to know if the screen is on. Should be simple, right? Well, perhaps. but I’m stuck :)/ The problem is that FKB reports the screen status in seperate topics for screenOn and screenOff

Screen on: MQTT message

fully/event/screenOn/MyDeviceID
{
  "deviceID":"MyDeviceID"
  "event":"screenOn"
}

Screen off: MQTT message

fully/event/screenOff/MyDeviceID
{
  "deviceID":"MyDeviceID"
  "event":"screenOff"
}

Anyone got a clue how to deal with this in Home Assistant?

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It is a bit late response I know :slight_smile:
You can use mqtt wild card

  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "fully/event/+/myDeviceID"
    name: "fully_sensor"
    value_template: '{{value_json.event}}'

Resulted sensor will read all events. You can process events read by fully_sensor by a template:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      fully_panel_state:
        friendly_name: Panel state
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state_attr('sensor.fully_sensor', 'screenOn', true) %} ScreenOn 
          {% elif is_state_attr('sensor.fully_sensor', 'screenOff', true) %} ScreenOff 
           .
           .

          {% endif %}

Or create binary_sensor template:
It could be even more binary_sensors feed by the sensor.fully_sensor

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      FullyScreen:
        friendly_name: "FullyScreen"
        value_template: >-
          {{ is_state('sensor.fully_sensor', 'screenOn') }}

Or you can skip all above and create a separate binary sensor for any event or combination of events you wish:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Screen"
    payload_on: "screenOn"
    payload_off: "screenOff"
    state_topic: "fully/event/+/myDeviceID"
    value_template: '{{value_json.event}}'
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