Switch where values are in dictionary range

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Hi Guys,
apologies for the question, I’ve researched templates and I’ve researched template switches and I thought I understand them but home assistant brought me back down to earth with error messages.

Background: I bought a portable AC unit, it has Tuya compatibility and it slotted straight into HA as a climate entity. I have a Stream deck that allows me to ‘at the touch of a button’ switch devices on and off. To do so, I need a switch entity and the Tuya interface doesn’t provide that. So I walk down the path of using a switch template, however the state of the entity is not on/off. Its ‘cool’ and ‘off’. So the return value of the template doesn’t match its dictionary

Failure Simplified:
value_template {{ is_state ('climate.kogan', 'cool') }}

I was hoping to return a true/false that HA would derive as Boolean on/off
I have not been able to determine the best way to create a template that will return specific values based on another entities values.

Creating a new entity seems the best way:

{{ iif (is_state('climate.kogan.state', 'cool'), 'on', 'off') }}

then converting that entity to a switch, however I was hoping to appeal to collective wisdom…

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The template is missing outer quotes. They’re needed when the template is on the same line as the YAML option. In addition, the YAML option is missing a required colon.

value_template: "{{ is_state('climate.kogan', 'cool') }}"

Reference: Important Templating Rules

climate.kogan.state is an invalid entity_id for the is_state() function. As a consequence, is_state() will produce false and so iif() will always report off.

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Thanks Taras … it was more about what is the best way rather than the syntax but I appreciate the correction.

{{ iif (is_state('climate.kogan_smarter_hometm_3_5kw_portable_air_conditioner', 'cool'), 'on', 'off') }}

Works fine, I just wanted to be sure there wasn’t a better way.

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If the syntax wrong, even the “best” way will fail.

The following is sufficient (and is shown in example found in the Template Switch’s documentation).

value_template: "{{ is_state('climate.kogan_smarter_hometm_3_5kw_portable_air_conditioner', 'cool') }}"