Split config templates state not working

Configuration
1

In configuration.yaml…

template:
  sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/sensor/
  binary_sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/binary_sensor/
  trigger: !include_dir_merge_list template/trigger/

In template/sensor/sensors.yaml…

- name: "Hello World"
  state: >-
    {{ states('blah')  }}

Doesn’t work anymore??? It use to, not sure what changed?

When I say it doesn’t work, I mean the sensor shows up as sensor.hello_world, but the state is unknown.

Anyone know how to fix?

2

Ha, just figured out the issue.

template:
  - sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/sensor/
  - binary_sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/binary_sensor/
  - trigger: !include_dir_merge_list template/trigger/

Not,

template:
  sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/sensor/
  binary_sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/binary_sensor/
  trigger: !include_dir_merge_list template/trigger/

Funny as like I said the latter worked fine until recently :man_shrugging:

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3

How would we go about defining templates in multiple locations? Use case is I want to share the same sensor between two home assistants.

Something like…

template:
  - sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/sensor/
  - binary_sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/binary_sensor/
  - trigger: !include_dir_merge_list template/trigger/

template_shared:
  - sensor: !include_dir_merge_list /home/homeassistant/shared/template/sensor/
  - binary_sensor: !include_dir_merge_list/home/homeassistant/shared/ template/binary_sensor/
  - trigger: !include_dir_merge_list /home/homeassistant/shared/template/trigger/

Anyone have any ideas?

4

Didn’t think it would, but this works…

template:
  - sensor: !include_dir_merge_list template/sensor/
  - sensor: !include_dir_merge_list ../shared/template/sensor/
5

how does your triggers look like. Because trigger is already there but can’t work without:

- trigger:
    - platform: webhook
      webhook_id: "postgress_backup"
      local_only: true
      allowed_methods:
        - POST
        - PUT
      
  sensor:
    - name: "Webhook Postgress Template"
      state: "{{ trigger.json }}"

I got a error when check configuration.

Invalid config for [template]: required key not provided @ data[‘trigger’][0][‘platform’]. Got None.

6

@poudenes

In configuration.yaml, do you have…

template: !include templates.yaml

Where is template: defined?

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: webhook
        webhook_id: my-super-secret-webhook-id
    sensor:
      - name: "Webhook Temperature"
        state: "{{ trigger.json.temperature }}"
        unit_of_measurement: °C
7

already solved it. Thanks

8

:+1: Good deal