MQTT Room Presence not recognized

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So currently I’m trying to build a small Esp8266 motion sensor which publishes mqtt messages, everytime a motion is detected.
So the esp successfully publishes messages like this:

{"id":"esp","name":"room1","distance":3}

And my home assistant configuration is like this:

- platform: mqtt_room
  device_id: esp
  name: 'room1'
  state_topic: 'esp/motion'
  scan_interval: 5

But the state never changes and remains not_home all the time.

Am I doing something wrong?

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I’m having the same issue. Did this ever get resolved for you?