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In addition to the APCUPSd Sensor devices, you may also create a device which is simply "on" when the UPS status is online and "off" at all other times.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable this sensor, you first have to set up apcupsd, and add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: apcupsd

{% configuration %} name: description: Name to use in the frontend. required: false type: string default: UPS Online Status {% endconfiguration %}