Help with availability template, am i going nuts?

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I am trying to follow a guide to filter out rediculous energy spikes due to KWH dropping to zero at intermittent intervals before returning to the actual number, I set up a helper with an availability template to go unavailable should the value not be greater than zero, however, this template returns unavailable despite testing the template showing it returns true.

availability: {{ states(‘sensor.shellyplugusg4_48f6eece18c0_energy’) | float > 0 }}

when i remove this template, the helper shows the 4,000KWH as expected which is being pulled from

{{ states(‘sensor.shellyplugusg4_48f6eece18c0_energy’) | float }}

what am i doing wrong? can anyone help me set this up correctly? (only the shelly plug gen 4 is causing the spikes randomly or when it reboots and would like to filter out the spikes through the helper method i found on the forums)

note: i am trying to set this up from the UI

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Templating Rule #1

Scratch that, just saw the note…

In the UI, you don’t keep the availability:… make sure it looks like the following in the Helper config flow:

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ok, lemme try that
edit: THANKS that worked, those element tags always throw me off weather they are needed in the UI or not from case to case

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One other thing… The template you pasted is using “pretty” quotes in the states function. These are often picked up from copy/pasting from improperly formatted text.

Make sure you use normal/plain quotes.

#These are pretty quotes
{{ states(‘sensor.shellyplugusg4_48f6eece18c0_energy’) | float(0) > 0 }}

#These are plain quotes
{{ states('sensor.shellyplugusg4_48f6eece18c0_energy') | float(0) > 0 }}
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not sure when or how they end up fancy quotes, but i always re-type the quotes manually when pasting them into HA to avoid the quote disaster

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They usually creep in when copying unformatted text from the forum.