[DOC: PIR Motion Sensors] Fix MQTT topic to publish config for Home Assistant #1515
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I noticed that with the suggested topic in rule2, Home assistant doesn't detect the device/sensor.
After some digging with MQTT explorer I discovered that MQTT integration requires a particular structure of the topic tree under
/homeassistant. Sensors configuration should be nested under their type parent-topics, e.g./homeassistant/sensor/<Sensor ID>, or in that case/homeassistant/binary_sensor/<Sensor ID>.Also, not included in the PR is additional parameter for the device:
Without the name added to the device parameters, HA shows the sensor as

Connected via Unnamed device