Automation Problem with a service template

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So I have an air conditioner in my bedroom and living room.

The climate control for these do not have a toggle function and I want to make a button in lovelace to toggle the A/C on or off. The input_boolean does this.

Then I have an automation as follows:

- id: 'toggleacbedroom'
  alias: Toggle A/C Bedroom
  initial_state: 'true'
  trigger:
    - entity_id: input_boolean.ac_bedroom
      platform: state
  condition: []
  action:
  - service_template: >
       '{%- if states.climate.bedroom.state == 'off' -%} climate.turn_on {%- else -%} climate.turn_off {%- endif -%}'
    entity_id: climate.bedroom 
- id: 'toggleaclivingroom'
  alias: Toggle A/C Livingroom
  initial_state: 'true'
  trigger:
    - entity_id: input_boolean.ac_living_room
      platform: state
  condition: []
  action:
  - service_template: >
       '{%- if states.climate.living_room.state == 'off' -%} climate.turn_on {%- else -%} climate.turn_off {%- endif -%}'
    entity_id: climate.living_room

The trigger is working but the action is not working and I get an error:

Error while executing automation automation.toggle_a_c_livingroom. Invalid data for call_service at pos 1: Service 'climate.turn_on' does not match format <domain>.<name>

My Lovelace card triggers the input_boolean and displays the state of the climate entity:

         - type: horizontal-stack
            cards:
              - type: custom:button-card
                entity: climate.living_room
                icon: mdi:air-conditioner
                color: var(--secondary-text-color)
                state:
                  - value: 'off'
                    color: var(--paper-item-icon-color)       # rgb(54, 95, 140)
                name: Living Room
                show_state: true
                tap_action:
                  action: call-service
                  service: input_boolean.toggle
                  service_data:
                    entity_id: input_boolean.ac_living_room
              - type: custom:button-card
                entity: climate.bedroom
                icon: mdi:air-conditioner
                color: var(--secondary-text-color)
                state:
                  - value: 'off'
                    color: var(--paper-item-icon-color)       # rgb(54, 95, 140)
                name: Bedoom
                show_state: true
                tap_action:
                  action: call-service
                  service: input_boolean.toggle
                  service_data:
                    entity_id: input_boolean.ac_bedroom

Any ideas. @petro @123 in particular as they are template guru’s…
Or any other way to do this?

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Solved by removing the quotes around the service template. Doh!

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