Entity Progress Bar if/else colour change help

[Greminn (Simon)]

Hi There, I am using GitHub - francois-le-ko4la/lovelace-entity-progress-card: Entity progress card for Home Assistant to show the feed progress of our cat feeder. I want to use the tap action function to toggle the feeding automation - so we can turn the automation on and off. This part works well!

I want to show the icon as a blue colour if the automation is enabled or not… what do I have wrong here? As this just shows a black icon.

color: >-
  {% if states('automation.cat_feeder_schedule', 'state') == 'on' %} 
    blue 
  {% else %} 
    disabled
  {% endif %}

[Didgeridrew]

@Greminn

{% if states('automation.cat_feeder_schedule', 'state') == 'on' %}

That’s not a valid way to use the states() function… the preferred method to check if the state value is “on” would be:

{% if is_state('automation.cat_feeder_schedule', 'on') %}

but, the following would also work:

{% if states('automation.cat_feeder_schedule') == 'on' %}

[Greminn (Simon)]

Thanks for the help here! I can see this works well in my dev tools template editor. It just does not show up in the dashboard. Currently automation.cat_feeder_schedule’s state is “off”, so in theory the bar_colour should be red right?

bar_color: >-
  {% if is_state('automation.cat_feeder_schedule', 'on') %}blue{% else %}red{%
  endif %}

[Didgeridrew]

@Greminn

Currently automation.cat_feeder_schedule’s state is “off”, so in theory the bar_colour should be red right?

Based on the docs you linked it does not appear that bar_color accepts templates. The configuration variables that accept templates are marked as [JINJA]:

While bar_color variable is marked as accepting strings only:

[Greminn (Simon)]

Ah!! Thank you. And also I learned some new things in reading docs!