WTH: Binary Sensor Custom Classes

[124tampines11]

It would be really nice to be able to create custom classes for binary sensors rather than having to create a template sensor for each binary sensor.

In my case I have 24 tanks with level sensors in them - they are either full or empty. All 24 of them I have had to create essentially duplicate template sensors of the real sensors just for the device class.

[tom_l]

Closing as a duplicate of:

WTH is there no binary sensor custom Device Class?

Rather than maintaining an ever growing list of binary sensor device classes to support things like people having windows that open horizontally or gates or mailboxes, etc… WTH not implement support for custom device classes that could possibly be defined like this: device_class: - <domain> - <class> state_on: <on state word> state_off: <off state word> icon_on: <mdi icon for on state> icon_off: <mdi icon for off state> The class would have to b…

Please vote and comment there.

This is also the third post of yours I’ve had to close. Please search the category before posting.