Numeric state automation help

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Hi,
Looking for some help with getting an automation working. Fairly new to HA and very new to automation - this is my first.

I am trying to get a plug to switch on when the grid power in the house goes below a certain value and turn off agin when it goes above a different higher value. The ultimate goal is to make certain sockets turn on when the solar array is generating a lot of energy and off when it isn’t. However it’s dark while I try to do this so simulating with much higher values and turning electrical devices on or off to get the grid power to pass above and below a fixed value. I can get the automation to work using a time trigger but not a numeric state trigger so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I used the automations UI to do add the two automations for on and off and below is what it put in my automations.yaml

- id: '1669239228833'
  alias: Excess Solar On
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.grid_power
    attribute: ''
    below: '600'
  condition:
  - condition: device
    type: is_off
    device_id: 015443524065e6186d76671b7f51bd08
    entity_id: switch.tapo_1
    domain: switch
  action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 015443524065e6186d76671b7f51bd08
    entity_id: switch.tapo_1
    domain: switch
  mode: single
- id: '1669239668783'
  alias: Excess Solar Off
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.grid_power
    above: '600'
  condition:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: 015443524065e6186d76671b7f51bd08
    entity_id: switch.tapo_1
    domain: switch
  action:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: 015443524065e6186d76671b7f51bd08
    entity_id: switch.tapo_1
    domain: switch
  mode: single

Thanks for any help you can provide with this. Hopefully I have just misunderstood how this works and it’s easy to fix.

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Remove this line:

    attribute: ''
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Thank you so much. Can’t believe it was that simple.

Working perfectly now.

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You’re welcome!

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NOTE

If you are interested in learning how to consolidate the two automations, here’s an example of one way to do it:

- id: 'excess_solar'
  alias: Excess Solar
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - id: 'on'
    platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.grid_power
    below: 600
    variables:
      switch_state: "{{ is_state('switch.tapo_1', 'off') }}"
  - id: 'off'
    platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.grid_power
    above: 600
    variables:
      switch_state: "{{ is_state('switch.tapo_1', 'on') }}"
  condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ switch_state }}"
  action:
  - service: "switch.turn_{{ trigger.id }}"
    target:
      entity_id: switch.tapo_1
  mode: single