I love that the automations wizard IF-THEN-ELSE building blocks include “and,” “not,” and “or.” However, to expand the functions further, could we also get “nor,” “greater than,” and “less than” as options as well? It would greatly improve automations and make it easier for those of us who would prefer the wizard over trying to script an automation from scratch. It would also make the platform more accessible to newbies like myself.
greater than and less than are not building blocks for a statement. They are part of a condition, and you can already do those when you add a condition. After adding the IF-THEN block, you’ll see a CONDITION button after the IF. When you click on it you you can choose NUMERIC STATE, pick your entity, and then set an upper limit (less than), lower limit (greater than) or both (between).
The GUI does it this way because you can only use greater than, less than, and between with numeric states. It keeps you from doing something that won’t work like trying to ask if 4 is greater than “online” (or some random text state).
And nor would be a not and condition if I’m not mistaken
True, although a request to have NOR as an option along with AND and OR is at least consistent with the rest of the building block structure.