How can I use cover.garage in Lovelace Mini Graph Card?

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How can I use cover.garage in Lovelace Mini Graph Card? I am able to use Lovelace Mini Graph Card with occupancy sensors just fine and I am able to use cover.garage with history-graph just fine but I can’t figure out how to use cover.garage with Lovelace Mini Graph Card. Do I need to make a sensor out of cover.garage in order for it to work with Lovelace Mini Graph Card?

If I need to use a template how do I add it apart from the following?

   sensor:
      platform: template
      sensors:
        garage_door:

I see there is a Binary Sensor for garage_door but I don’t understand how to implement that.

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Yeah, you’ll need to make a template sensor follow whatever you want.

All a template sensor does is combine various states of whatever you want to create a new sensor.

For a garage door, this would be a template binary sensor.

This goes with all of your other binary sensors if you have any. Don’t create another ‘binary_sensor’ in configuration.yaml unless you don’t have one.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      garage_door:
        # This template needs to evaluate to true or false. When true, the binary sensor is on.
        # So in this example, the sensor is 'on' if cover.garage_door state is open. Otherwise it's off.
        value_template: "{{ is_state('cover.garage_door', 'open') }}"
        device_class: "garage_door"

Now you can use this new binary_sensor.garage_door in a mini graph, or whatever else you need.

The thing you linked defines ‘device classes’. If you specify the device class of ‘garage_door’ to this template sensor, it will get the garage icon and a few other things with it.

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I did a Google search for MyQ API and found the states in this post So the deal was that I had to add

state_map:
  - value: closed
    label: Closed
  - value: open
    label: Open

That did the job. No need for a template after all.