Mqtt binary_sensor not updating while mqtt sensor is working

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Hi,

I am facing the issue the a mqtt sensor is working as expected while the (same) binary sensor is not:

My main system has Mosquito Broker 4.2 installed.

mosquitto_broker
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I have two sensors subscribing the same topics:

sensor:

  • platform: mqtt
    state_topic: ‘ha_slave01topic/input_boolean/test_trigger_remote/state’
    name: “mqtt_sensor_remote”

binary_sensor:

  • platform: mqtt
    state_topic: ‘ha_slave01topic/input_boolean/test_trigger_remote/state’
    name: “mqtt_binary_sensor_remote”

The state per mqtt gets updated:

mosquitto_sub
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While the sensor gets updated the binary sensor does not:

entity_states01
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entity_states02
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I also get an error message for the binary sensor that no matching payloads exist. I don’t get that message for the sensor.

systemhealth
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Any idea what is wrong with my binary_sensor configuration?

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Please format your code correctly.

The binary mqtt sensor requires ON or OFF payloads by default. Note the title case. HA is case sensitive. You have on/off. You will need to define the payloads:

binary_sensor:
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'ha_slave01topic/input_boolean/test_trigger_remote/state'
  name: "mqtt_binary_sensor_remote"
  payload_on: "on"
  payload_off: "off"
3

Many thanks! It works now.

I was trying the payload_on: “ON” and payload_off: “OFF” from the documentation example but it did not work due to the case sensitivity.

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