diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown
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--- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown
+++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@ The sensor exposes the different round trip times values measured by `ping` as a
 - `round trip time min`
 - `round trip time max`
 
+The default polling interval is 5 minutes. As many components [based on the entity class](/docs/configuration/platform_options), it is possible to overwrite this scan interval by specifying a `scan_interval` configuration key (value in seconds). In the example below we setup the `ping` binary sensor to poll the devices every 30 seconds.
+
+```yaml
+# Example configuration.yaml entry to ping host 192.168.0.1 with 2 packets every 30 seconds.
+binary_sensor:
+  - platform: ping
+    host: 192.168.0.1
+    count: 2
+    scan_interval: 30
+```
+
 <p class='note'>
 When run on Windows systems, the round trip time attributes are rounded to the nearest millisecond and the mdev value is unavailable.
 </p>