Template:create sensors with individual triggers

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Hello,

I am failing understanding how I can setup in yaml for instance a sensor updated every hours and another one updated every 7 minutes.

Template doc talks about blocks but it shows only 1 example with multiple blocks. Unfortunately it is just 2 blocks with the 2nd being state based update. No example where it would be 2 trigger based update blocks.

May be I miss something...

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Trigger template sensors can have multiple triggers, but afaik, you can only add these via yaml. Here's one I actually use -

  - triggers:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id: climate.thermostat
    conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >
          {{ states('climate.thermostat') in ['heat', 'cool'] }}
    sensor:
      - name: Thermostat Last Mode
        unique_id: thermostat_last_mode
        state: >
          {{ states('climate.thermostat') if states('climate.thermostat') in ['heat', 'cool'] else this.state }}

But I could add additional triggers under the trigger key, for example -

- triggers:
    - trigger: state
      entity_id: climate.thermostat
    - trigger: state
      entity_id: fan.thermostat
  conditions:
    - condition: template
      value_template: >
        {{ states('climate.thermostat') in ['heat', 'cool'] }}
  sensor:
    - name: Thermostat Last Mode
      unique_id: thermostat_last_mode
      state: >
        {{ states('climate.thermostat')
           if states('climate.thermostat') in ['heat', 'cool']
           else this.state }}

For what you're trying to do, you'd probably want to create triggers for "time" or a "time_pattern". Time will do specific times of the day. Time pattern will do something like every 5 minutes (whatever differential you want.)

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The template integration expects a list. In YAML list items are denoted with a -, so to add a new trigger-based template entity, you start with a -. Then you add the triggers, domain key, and any of the other optional configuration keys:

template:
  - triggers:   #The dash on this line starts a new item under template
      - trigger: time_pattern
        hours: "/1"
    sensor:
      - name: My Every-hour Trigger-Based Sensor
        state: "{{ now().minute is even }}"

  - triggers:  #The dash on this line starts a new item under template
      - trigger: time_pattern
        minutes: "/7"
    sensor:
      - name: My Every-7-minutes Trigger-Based Sensor
        state: "{{ now().minute is odd }}"

  - sensor: #The dash still starts a new item under template, even though I started with sensor this time
      - name: My 1pm Trigger-Based Sensor
        state: "{{ now().day is odd }}"
    triggers:  
      - trigger: time
        at: "13:00:00"

I have added blank lines between the items, but they are not necessary.