Binary sensor in configuration.yaml does not show up in Entities

@haaeff wrote:

Hi. I have, after a lot of reading and a lot of HA restarts, managed to get a binary sensor working.

However it is unclear to me if the manually configured sensor should show in HA gui under Entities or not?
Sensor definition in configuration.yaml:

binary_sensor:
 - platform: mqtt
   name: "kerui1"
   device_class: motion
   state_topic: "homeassistant/sonoffrf/RESULT"
   value_template: "{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}"
   payload_on: "81622A"
   off_delay: 2

Checking log file for sensor name show that the sensor is active:

tail -f /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/home-assistant.log | grep kerui
2020-02-05 21:11:42 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=binary_sensor.kerui1, old_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=off; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:11.937570+01:00>, new_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=on; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:42.242433+01:00>>
2020-02-05 21:11:42 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.2915650672] Sending {'id': 2, 'type': 'event', 'event': <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=binary_sensor.kerui1, old_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=off; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:11.937570+01:00>, new_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=on; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:42.242433+01:00>>}
2020-02-05 21:11:45 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=binary_sensor.kerui1, old_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=on; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:42.242433+01:00>, new_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=off; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:45.004834+01:00>>
2020-02-05 21:11:45 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.2915650672] Sending {'id': 2, 'type': 'event', 'event': <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=binary_sensor.kerui1, old_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=on; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:42.242433+01:00>, new_state=<state binary_sensor.kerui1=off; friendly_name=kerui1, device_class=motion @ 2020-02-05T21:11:45.004834+01:00>>}

And I can use the sensor for light automation (from automations.yaml):

- alias: Turn on kitchen light when there is movement
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.kerui1
    to: 'on'
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.hue_white_lamp_4

- alias: Turn off kitchen light 10 minutes after last movement
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.kerui1
    to: 'off'
    for:
      minutes: 1
  action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: light.hue_white_lamp_4

It took me some hours of work before I checked the home-assistant.log, I wanted to get my own defined sensor to show in gui. Can anyone enlighten me on this topic?

Br Hans Fredrik

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