Condition template not working in automation, but it does in dev tools

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Hi there!

I’m going crazy with this simple condition for an automation. It compares two sensor illuminance levels and supposed to return true or false as a condition to the automation.

{{ 
(state_attr('Presence1', 'illuminance lux')|int) > (state_attr('Presence2', 'illuminance lux')|int)
}}

When I evaluate it using the GUI button to do so it returns following error:

template value should be a string for dictionary value @ data[‘value_template’]. Got None

I have tried using simple quotes, double ones but with same results.

The strange thing is that I have built the template in the dev tools and it was working there as expected returning a Boolean.

Anybody can give me some light about this?

Many thanks folks.

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Can you show the entire condition block?

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My bad!!! After write it down here I had a bad feeling about the template itself.
As the presence sensors are Zigbee ones with illuminance sensor included it seems that the name of the sensors was incorrect:

Wrong:
Presence1

Correct:
sensor.Presence1_illuminance_lux

So if I update the automation condition accordingly now it’s working:

  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ (states('sensor.Presence1_illuminance_lux')|int) >
      (states('sensor.Presence2_illuminance_lux')|int)}}
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