Help with if statement in template

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I’m very new to templating. I’ve got the Snoo integration running and it produces values of “ONLINE”, “BASELINE”, “LEVEL 1”, etc. These appear to be strings. I would like to convert them to numbers so I can use a Lovelace gauge card to display the status. Something along the lines of this.

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: Baby Monitor
        state: >
          {if sensor.parker_s_snoo == "ONLINE" { 0 }
           if sensor.parker_s_snoo == "BASELINE" {0}
           if sensor.parker_s_snoo == "LEVEL 1 {1}
           if sensor.parker_s_snoo == "LEVEL 2 {2}
           if sensor.parker_s_snoo == "LEVEL3 {3}}

My syntax is probably a disaster, can anyone help point me in the right direction?

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template:
  - sensor:
      - name: Baby Monitor
        unit_of_measurement: "Lvl"
        state: >
          {% set snoo = states('sensor.parker_s_snoo') }}
          {% if snoo in ["ONLINE", "BASELINE"] %}
            0
          {% elif snoo == "LEVEL 1" %}
            1
          {% elif snoo == "LEVEL 2" %}
            2
          {% elif snoo == "LEVEL 3" %}
            3
          {% else %}
            Undefined 
          {% endif %}
        availability: "{{ states('sensor.parker_s_snoo') in ["ONLINE", "BASELINE", "LEVEL 1", "LEVEL 2", "LEVEL 3] }}"
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Yes, thank you. I also realized that I didn’t do a good job of reading the docs. There is a good example here:

My current working code looks like this (took me a while to figure out it’s “LEVEL1”, not “LEVEL 1”):

template:
   - sensor:
      - name: Snoo Level
        state: >
          {% if is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'ONLINE')%}
            0
          {% elif is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'BASELINE')%}
            0
          {% elif is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'LEVEL1')%}
            1
          {% elif is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'LEVEL2')%}
            2
          {% elif is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'LEVEL3')%}
            3
          {% elif is_state('sensor.parker_s_snoo', 'LEVEL3')%}
            4
          {% else %}
            failed
          {% endif %}

I like your use of in ["ONLINE, “BASELINE”], that’s cleaner than mine, I’ll change it now. Thanks for the help.

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You also need a unit of measurement for graphs, not sure about the gauge card but I suspect so.

You should also use an availability template or your gauge card will complain with an ugly message about that non numeric else state if it ever happens.

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Sorry @tom_l , but this doesn’t look like a correct use of quotation marks. :wink: :slight_smile:

Shouldn’t it be:

availability: "{{ states('sensor.parker_s_snoo') in ['ONLINE', 'BASELINE', 'LEVEL 1', 'LEVEL 2', 'LEVEL 3'] }}"
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Yes it should. Thanks.

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