Jinja macro and OR not working

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Hello,

I’m implementing templates with the new macro functionality. However, it looks like or statements aren’t working.

Consider the following template:

{% from 'helpers.jinja' import is_last_changed_in_time_out %}
{% from 'helpers.jinja' import is_entity_currently_on %}
{% set last_changed = is_last_changed_in_time_out(area_name, states.binary_sensor, "presence", occupancy_time_out) %}
{% set is_on = is_entity_currently_on(area_name, states.binary_sensor, "presence")  %}
{{ last_changed or is_on}}
{% endmacro %}

If last changed is true and is_on is false the template is true. if last_changed is false and is_on is true it returns false. However, i’m using an or and i would expected the order doesn’t matter. Does someone know if this is a bug?

aka:

true or false = true
false or true = false

2

Looks like the template macro after the or isn’t rendered. Is this expected behaviour?

3

It’s because macros return strings. You need to convert them to booleans. Otherwise it’s resolved as a string. Populated string is true where an empty string is false.

4

That will also be true btw

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5 
{{ last_changed|bool(false) or is_on|bool(false) }}
6

Thank you. Not the first time i’ve been burned by templates returning strings.

7

Yes, that’s why i was confused by the output. But apparently i was using strings.