Automation condition absolute value

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I’d like to automate a condition when a the absolute value of a sensor (which is negative) becomes greater than another sensor value (which is positive). I am working in the visual editor and can workin yaml but don’t know the coding required for the absolute value of a sensor value. TYVM!

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You’re going to need templating for that.

{{ states('sensor.whale')|abs > states('sensor.petunia') }}
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You’re comparing strings Tinkerer.

{{ states('sensor.whale')|float(42)|abs > states('sensor.petunia')|float(42) }}
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That sounds more like a trigger to me.

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Thanks for the replies. This indeed was an easy fix using templating in configuration.yaml. I actually needed the sign reversed rather than absolute value so I multiplied by -1 to get the value I needed.