Mutliple binary sensors in templates.yaml for different motion detection sensors

Configuration
1

I’ve set up a motion detection trigger to change a binary sensor state in my templates.yaml as follows:

trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
    event_data:
      device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
      
binary_sensor:
  - name: "Camera4 Movement"
    state: "true"
    device_class: motion
    auto_off: 10

And this works just fine.

However

I want to do multiple different sensors and I’ve tried the following:

trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
    event_data:
      device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
      
binary_sensor:
  - name: "Camera4 Movement"
    state: "true"
    device_class: motion
    auto_off: 10 
    
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
    event_data:
      device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
 
binary_sensor:
 - name: "Camera5 Movement"
    state: "true"
    device_class: motion
    auto_off: 10 

trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
    event_data:
      device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
  
binary_sensor:
  - name: "Camera6 Movement"
    state: "true"
    device_class: motion
    auto_off: 10

With this code it only generates a single sensor namely “Camera6 Movement” which only Camera6 triggers. I’ve tried getting them all to trigger one binary sensor, but no luck either, only the last trigger works.

I would like to have a binary sensor for each trigger.

2

You need to properly format your list using - to indicate each item, otherwise each subsequent entry overwrites the previous… YAML for non-Programmers

3

Thanks and what would the formatting need to look like in this case?

4

I haven’t figured out how to do multiple triggers to different binary sensors yet, but I did fix some other sensors that I had broken

Previously I had

trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
    event_data:
      device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
      
binary_sensor:
  - name: "Camera4 Movement"
    state: "true"
    device_class: motion
    auto_off: 10 

sensor:
  - name:

sensors:
    name_of_sensor_only
    sensor data:

Where it should have been

- trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
      event_data:
        device_id: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
      
  binary_sensor:
    - name: "Camera4 Movement"
      state: "true"
      device_class: motion
      auto_off: 10 

- sensor:
    - name:

- sensors:
      name_of_sensor_only
      sensor data:
5

You set up a trigger and then you place as many sensors as you want operated off that trigger below it. Then you list a new trigger and repeat. E.g.:

- trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
      event_data:
        device_id: 'xxxx4'
      
  binary_sensor:
    - name: "Camera4 Movement"
      state: "true"
      device_class: motion
      auto_off: 10 

- trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: motioneye.motion_detected
      event_data:
        device_id: 'xxxx5'
      
  binary_sensor:
    - name: "Camera5 Movement"
      state: "true"
      device_class: motion
      auto_off: 10 

…
6

Thanks seems I was missing the list -'s needed for the trigger: sensor: & sensors: parts.

I guess it was only seeing it as a single entry rather than a list?

7

The sensors: part is old legacy formatting that should be converted over to the new format. But yes HA may have been only looking at the first item since you omitted the ‘-‘. But I’m not certain how HA interprets code that doesn’t match the recommended formatting.