Binary Sensor issue

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Hi,

I have a ESPHome flashed Sonoff SV that is controlling the garage door (defined as a cover). There is a group of binary_sensors for all the doors/windows in the house and I want to add the state of garage to that group for home alarm. So I defined a binary sensor as below

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: Garage Door Status2
        state: >-
          {% if states('cover.garagedoor') == 'closed' %}
            'off'
          {% else %}
            'on'
          {% endif %}

But it always seem “off”, this screen shot was taken when the garage door was open.
garage-2

And even more baffling when I copy and paste the if-else block in the template editor, it shows the correct state. This screen shot is taken at the same time as the one above.

garage-1
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Seems like there is nothing wrong with my code so why is HA not updating the state when garage door opens?

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Ahh.hhhh, had to find ways to kick myself :grinning:

The quotes around on/off were the problem and this worked like a charm!

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: Garage Door Status2
        state: >-
          {% if states('cover.garagedoor') == 'closed' %}
            off
          {% else %}
            on
          {% endif %}