status inputs thermostat

[spiseregern]

Hello
I'm hoping someone may be able to help me or give me advice. I am making a thermostat to control my evaporative cooler and i have run into a roadblock. when i run the cooler i plan to use current switch to send a gpio high to indicate that the service is running but can't seem to figure out how to make it work, i though i could use "g" status input but after some reading realized that the thermostat service doesn't offer this option.
any help with this would be much appreciated.

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