Templates defined in configation.yaml stopped working

Configuration
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I’m not certain how long this has been going on, but I believe for a while. I am noticing that sensors I am defining in configuration.yaml have stopped getting defined (or working)

I have the following in configuration.yaml:

template:

  - binary_sensor:
    - name: dusk-to-dawn
      unique_id: custom_dusk_to_dawn
      state: "{{ iif(is_state('binary_sensor.home_sun_dawn_to_dusk', 'on'), 'off', 'on') }}"
    
    - name: someone-is-home
      unique_id: custom_someone_is_home
      state: "{{ iif(is_state('zone.home', '0'), 'off', 'on') }}"

  - sensor:
    - name: dishwasher-end-time
      unique_id: custom_dishwasher_end_time
      state: "{{ as_timestamp(states('sensor.104100531352000355_bsh_common_option_remainingprogramtime')) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M %p') }}"

    - name: dishwasher-running
      unique_id: dishwasher_running
      state: "{{ iif(is_state('sensor.104100531352000355_bsh_common_status_operationstate', 'BSH.Common.EnumType.OperationState.Run'), 'running', 'stopped') }}"

I am running on the following version of HA:

  • Core2024.11.3
  • Supervisor2024.11.4
  • Operating System13.2
  • Frontend20241106.2

All of these were defined for a while and were working (the first couple for more than a year), then today when defining new sensors, I found they weren’t getting defined, then found my old ones stopped working as well.

I know the syntax of defining templates changed a few releases ago. Possibly these stopped working since then, and I just didn’t notice.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Hi smarthome01824,

Well they look ok to me, and they are the current format.
Any errors about templates in the logs?
Do you have multiple template: keys in the configuration.yaml? (A common problem)

3

So sorry.

After looking over and over things, I determined the sensors were defined properly, but I was accessing them improperly.

Thanks for the quick response.