TCP Sensors not showing up

I have created the following TCP-sensor in my sensors.yaml and reloaded without errors, however the sensor that should be created does not show up in the states tool, nor can I reference it using the states() method; what am I doing wrong?

  • platform: tcp
    name: Router Status
    host: 10.73.1.1
    port: 23
    payload: "\nadmin\nPASSWORD\nvpn list 1