If/Then condition template shorthand help

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Hi,

I have an automation that works fine, but am playing with condition template shorthand as part of my education.

Can someone tell me why the 2 hashed out conditions don’t work whereas the ‘normal’ numeric_state is fine?

automation:
  - alias: "Tapo: Auto on:off"
    id: tapo_on_off
    mode: single
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_select.house_mode
      - platform: state
        entity_id: zone.home
    condition: []
    action:
      - if:
#           - condition: "{{ states('zone.home') != '0 }}"
#           - condition: "{{ is_state('zone.home','1') }}"
          - condition: numeric_state
            entity_id: zone.home
            above: 0
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_select.house_mode
            state: awake
        then:
          - service: switch.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: switch.tapo_camera_privacy
          - service: script.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: script.tapo_notify_status
        else:
          - service: switch.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: switch.tapo_camera_privacy
          - service: script.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: script.tapo_notify_status
2

…is it that you simply can’t use shorthand for if/then conditions?

3

Did you miss a quote after the “0”?

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Both of them work fine (if you corrected the first line like @starob says)
The Dev Tools are a great way to test these kind of thing to check if you coded them correctly.

And i dont believe if works like that in automations. In the action you use the if with a condition, that condition can be a template:

action:
  - if:
    - condition: template
      value_template: "{{ states('zone.home') != '0' }}"
    then:
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5

Based on the examples in the linked documentation, change the format of this:

          - condition : "{{ states('zone.home') != '0' }}"

To this:

          - "{{ states('zone.home') != '0' }}"

The leading condition: is needed only when the (shorthand) Template Condition is within a sequence of actions:

action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: light.kitchen
  - condition: "{{ states('sensor.kitchen_light_level') | int(0) < 50 }}"
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.undercabinet
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6

ugh - got it, thanks!

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7

I did - thanks for spotting - but it was just a typo in my post. My original had it correct and it still didn’t work.

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That was just a typo in my post - sorry for the confusion. I did have them working in dev tools (per your picture) before I posted the question - that was why I posted the question.

Taras was correct though; my mistake was in having condition: in front of the template, so the following works fine:

automation  - alias: "Tapo: Auto on:off"
    id: tapo_on_off
    mode: single
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_select.house_mode
      - platform: state
        entity_id: zone.home
    condition: []
    action:
      - if:
          - "{{ states('zone.home') != '0' }}"
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_select.house_mode
            state: "Awake"
        then:
          - service: switch.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: switch.tapo_camera_privacy
          - service: script.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: script.tapo_notify_status
        else:
          - service: switch.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: switch.tapo_camera_privacy
          - service: script.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: script.tapo_notify_status
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