Template and Sensors

Configuration
1

I am having difficulty creating a sensor that tracks a cover entity despite studying the configuration pages and looking for examples. I only want this b/c I want to see “Open/Closed” on my dashboard similar to door/window sensors. I have a card that list several sensor entities and instead of a simple “Open/Closed” for the covers I get arrows indicating status of cover.

Here is the error I keep getting:

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

template:
  # Define state-based template entities
  - sensor:
      - name: "Matt Garage Door"
        state: >
          {% if is_state('states.cover.matt_garage_door', 'closed') %}
            closed
          {% elif is_state('states.cover.matt_garage_door', 'open') %}
            open
          {% else %}
            failed
          {% endif %}
2

You’ll get that error message if you are using an older version of Home Assistant (pre 2021.5.0) with that Template Sensor configuration. What version are you using?

3

oh man…I’ve been beating my head against the wall on this one…

core-2021.4.2.

I recently upgraded to 2021.6.2 but had to rollback b/c all my zwave.js stuff stopped working.

4

And that’s why you are seeing that message. That version only supported Trigger-based Template Sensors in the template configuration. The next version introduced support for non-Trigger-based Template Sensors.

5

@123 Thank you for the quick and helpful reply. I updated my core installation and after some config clean-up, everything was up and running.

For those interested, here is the final config I used

template:
  # Define state-based template entities
  - sensor:
      - name: "Matt Garage Door"
        state: >
          {% if is_state('cover.matt_garage_door', 'closed') %}
            Closed
          {% elif is_state('cover.matt_garage_door', 'open') %}
            Open
          {% else %}
            Alert
          {% endif %}
        icon: >
          {% if is_state('cover.matt_garage_door', 'closed') %}
            mdi:garage
          {% elif is_state('cover.matt_garage_door', 'open') %}
            mdi:garage-open
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage-alert
          {% endif %}
6

You’re welcome!

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