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+layout: component
+title: "Binary Sensor"
+description: "Instructions how to setup your binary sensors with Home Assistant."
+date: 2015-11-13 14:00
+sidebar: true
+comments: false
+sharing: true
+footer: true
+---
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+Binary sensors are gathering information about state of a switch/contact/pin. This means that those sensors knows only two states: **off/low/open*** and ***on/high/closed**. 
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