Automation trigger time template

Configuration
1

I have 2 sensors that need to be subtracted from each other. the first one holds a date_time value, the other holds an integer value in minutes.
When subtracted, this needs to be compared against the current date & time to trigger an automation.
The following gives me the right output, but doesn’t trigger the automation. This makes sense, since the documentation states that a trigger only occurs when a state changes, and now() poses a problem to this.
Question is: how do I make it work?

  trigger:
    platform: template
    value_template: >
      {% if (as_timestamp(now()) | int) == ((as_timestamp(states("sensor.calendar_time")) | int) - (states("sensor.travel_time") | int * 60) - 3600) %}
        true
      {% endif %}

I tried to replace now() with states.sensor.date_time.state, but this seems to have a problem to be converted to timestamp… this gives me “None” as output

2

Try this:

  trigger:
    platform: template
    value_template: >
      {{ as_timestamp(states('sensor.date__time').replace(',','')) | int ==
         as_timestamp(states("sensor.calendar_time")) | int -
         states("sensor.travel_time") | int * 60 - 3600 }}
3

the sensor.date__time was chaned recently to sensor.date_time (only one _ ).

4

Template editor looks promising. See tomorrow if the automation fires.