AND / OR operator within expressions

Configuration
1

Could someone of you please help my aging brain out?? I’m just trying to use a simple AND expression, but it does not outputs the expected result.

I put the following to the templates section within the developer tools:

{{ states('light.livingroom_bulb1') }}
{{ states('switch.light_livingroom') }}

{{ states('light.livingroom_bulb1') and states('switch.light_livingroom') }}
{{ states('switch.light_livingroom') and states('light.livingroom_bulb1') }}

and it results to:

off
on

on
off

How could that be?? I’ve just exchanged the two arguments… What am I doing wrong? (Maybe it’s just to early in the morning to work on these things…)

2

What do you want to do ?

Try

{{is_state('light.livingroom_bulb1', 'on')  }} 
{{is_state('switch.light_livingroom', 'on')  }} 

{{is_state('light.livingroom_bulb1', 'on') and is_state('switch.light_livingroom', 'on') }} 
{{is_state('switch.light_livingroom', 'on') and is_state('light.livingroom_bulb1', 'on') }}
3

my understanding is

they are string values so it only showing the first value

so ‘on’ and ‘off’ dont make a false

need to convert to a true false then do the and thing

think is_state() is what looking for

bugger @francisp beat me

4

Argl… of cause it’s string. Thanks, the is_state() function brought the solution!!!