Template returns string instead of number

Configuration
1

Hi Guys,.
I want to have the number of days of the current month as a number my template looks like this:

- sensor:
  - name: "Days_in_month"
    state: >
       {% if now().month in [1,3,5,7,8,10,12] %}
        31
       {% elif now().month in [4,6,9,11] %}
        30
       {% elif now().month == 2 and ((now().year-2000) % 4 > 0) %}
        28
       {% elif now().month == 2 and ((now().year-2000) % 4 == 0) %}
        29
       {% endif %}

but it seams that the “31” for January is a string, how to get this as a int?

thanks!

2

All states are strings. Whenever you use that, you have to convert it to an int. Your Template is good as is

3

ah ok, thanks, so my second template looks like this:

- sensor:
  - name: "test_template"
    state: >
       {% set days_this_month =  states('Days_in_month') | int %}
       {{((days_this_month)  + 100)}}

should return 131 but it returns 100 instead, is this not the way to convert?

4

states('Days_in_month')

Is that a sensor? Are you sure it has capital letters?

states('sensor.days_in_month') is my guess, but have a look in developer tools

5

:woozy_face: …
that missing “sensor.” was the Problem (and i changed everything to lowercase) now it works. thank you so much!