My washing machine is stating “unavailable” when the power is off, so I thought I would use this if state to either have On or Off for that entity. This one works great in the template editor, but how would it look if I want to put it in the configuration.yaml file? {% if states (“sensor.siemens_wm…

Try something like this. template: - binary_sensor: - name: “washing machine” state: "{{ not states('sensor.siemens_wm14pihdn_68a40e60a7cb_bsh_common_setting_powerstate') in ('unavailable', 'unknown') }}" Would also add, if you are not overly comfortable with adding sensors in yaml…

From template editor to configuration.yaml

Configuration

paddy0174 (Patrick) May 11, 2024, 12:58am 6

It would be very helpful, if you could take a look at this topic:

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