MQTT Cover (Sonoff SV + States from Aqara sensors)

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Hi all,

I had a working solution for my garage roller door (previous topic), which worked for 4 years, but one of the recent HA updates or something else broke it, well, broke the states, I can still control and see the status of the sensors.

I have Sonoff SV which is controlling the motor and 2 Aqara sensors with one magnet. Depending on the magnet position I know the state of the garage door - if it’s touching one sensor the door is closed, if touching another the door is opened, if not touching any of sensors - opened, but the last status I don’t care about, I only need to know if it’s closed or fully opened.

My config is:

  • Sonoff SV configured as MQTT Cover
- name: "Sonoff SV Garage"
  state_topic: "xiaomi-sensor/garage-door/STATE"
  command_topic: "cmnd/garage/POWER"
  payload_open: "ON"
  payload_close: "ON"
  payload_stop: "ON"
  state_open: "ON"
  state_closed: "OFF"
  optimistic: false
  • One automation that only publishes the status of one sensor to the state topic for the cover:
alias: MQTT Garage Door STATE
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.door_roller_garage
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - data:
      topic: xiaomi-sensor/garage-door/STATE
      payload_template: "{{ trigger.to_state.state | upper }}"
      retain: true
    action: mqtt.publish
mode: single

Currently, no matter wether the garage door is opened or closed my controls are not changing:

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Cannot figure out what’s wrong, looks like my automation is no longer working as I cannot trigger the action, it’s giving me “Error rendering data template: UndefinedError: ‘trigger’ is undefined”. Maybe syntacsis is wrong or deprecated.

Can you guys help please, all I need is the controls to be reverted when one of the Aqara sensors status changes from Closed to Open. Or if you have better ideas about this.

Thanks.

2

Found the answer myself, payload_template got deprecated, replaced it with payload and got my automation working again.

3

Watch out. That automation will also trigger when your binary sensor goes unavailable and comes back online.

You can avoid this unwanted trigger in 1 of 2 ways:

  • either add this in your conditions:
conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ trigger.from_state.state not in ['unknown', 'unavailable'] }}"
  • Or else add this in your trigger:
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.door_roller_garage
    trigger: state
    not_from:
      - unavailable
      - unknown