Evaluate state of a timer in a template

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Hi,
I understand that a timer can have active, idle and paused state(s). So created a “test timer” and trying to get its state, the timer is not active active so the result needs to be “Idle”.

I’ve tried a zillion combination of the template code below but in each instance the “else” statement gets executed which likely implies that I’m not using the correct syntax in the “if” statement:

{% if states.test_timer.idle == 'true' %}
 Idle
{% else %}
 Not idle
{% endif %}

Please point me in the right direction if you can spot my mistake.
Thanks.

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{% if is_state('timer.test_timer', 'idle') %}
 Idle
{% else %}
 Not idle
{% endif %}
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Worked like a charm…Thanks!!