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The ads binary sensor platform can be used to monitor a boolean value on your ADS device.

To use your ADS device, you first have to set up your ADS hub and then add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: ads
    adsvar: .boolean1

{% configuration %} adsvar: required: true description: The name of the variable which you want to access on the ADS device. type: string name: required: false description: An identifier for the light in the frontend. type: string device_class: required: false description: The type/class of the sensor to set the icon in the frontend. type: string {% endconfiguration %}