Notification with a Sensors State

Configuration
1

I am struggling with sending the state of a binary sensor in a notification. I’ve got the notification sending no problem but the templating is proving a challenge.

I’ve got

service: notify.pottshomebot
data:
  message: >
    Exterior Contacts are {{ states.sensor.binary_sensor.exterior_contacts.state
    }}

Where binary_sensor.exterior_contacts is a contact group of all the exterior doors and windows.

Thanks for any help.

2

You have an error in your template. It is either “sensor” or “binary_sensor”, not both.

The better/correct template would be:

{{ states('binary_sensor.exterior_contacts') }}

Or you could keep using:

{{ states.binary_sensor.exterior_contacts.state }}
3

That worked thank you.

Curiously the contact group is showing as on or off. Is there a way to make open or closed?

4

In general you can define a device class for a binary sensor, that determines how the device is displayed (icon, states).

Not sure how this would work with a group.
I guess, as long as all the entities in a group have the same device class, the group would inherit it.

5

Interestingly, in the logbook the sensor shows as open/close but template it is showing on/off in the notification.

6

Hi Mike,

did you ever get this solved. running in to the same issue?

tnx in adv

7

Pretty sure you can do it with some sort of template but I gave up.