I am trying to build an automation which triggers on the state change of our cat flap however it regularly becomes unavailable.
I would like to add a condition that checks the state change hasn’t gone to or from Unavailable but I am really struggling to think how to do it in HA.
I have very little knowledge how to use node red but would consider it if that is a recommended solution.
Is it a binary state - eg open/closed? If so two triggers - from closed to open and from open to closed should exclude any unavailable states. If you want to know when the flap is unavailable a third trigger for that. Then a choose action depending on which trigger fired.
For example:
description: ""
mode: single
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.catflap
to: "on"
id: open
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.catflap
to: "off"
id: closed
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.catflap
to: unavailable
id: unavailable
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- open
sequence: []
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- closed
sequence: []
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- unavailable
sequence: []
The poor cat must get shut out a lot! 
Something like this may help:
description: ""
mode: single
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.lumi_lumi_sensor_magnet_aq2_opening_2
not_from: unavailable
condition:
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.lumi_lumi_sensor_magnet_aq2_opening_2
state: unavailable
action: []
The not_from
isn’t available to select from the UI but is available when the Yaml is edited directly.
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Thankfully the RFID scanner still works so no issue to the cat, just means I can’t remotely control it.