Help with basic automation and input_boolean

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Hi,
Really struggling with something that should be so basic. Trying to do an automation with an input boolean. I have fiddled around with this for hours, if my trigger is for any change to the input_boolean then this action works (i.e. remove state:‘on’ from code below). But if I try to make it trigger on a specific state change say to ‘on’ as in the code below, it never triggers. I have tried using may formats. expressing it as a from and to, or just a to, or using on vs ‘on’ and it just is never triggered. Using latest version of HA, running on a synology NAS, python 3.5.

automation:

alias: Control Air Conditioner 
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.airconliving
    state: ‘on’
  action:
    service: input_boolean.turn_on
    entity_id: input_boolean.debughelp

apologies for format, not sure how to get indents going…

thanks

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Are you using “curly” quotes in your trigger state? Or is that an artifact of the forum? You’ll want to make sure your text editor is using a simple ’
ala:
state: 'on'

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Here’s a great site to test your code;

Just paste it in and click validate. If you’re trying to test a separate include file just be sure to put the first line back in when you test the code, or it’ll error out on line 1. :slight_smile:

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Ok, I could use certain words not allowed on forums now.

Thanks ih8gates you got it in one, rookie error, I was using OS X textedit, and it indeed had smart quotes turned on.

akajester and thanks for the link, very useful.