Master {{ trigger.entity_id, 'friendly_name' }} is {{ trigger.to_state.state }}
doesnt show friendly name, not sure how to get context right
It’s either
state_attr(trigger.entity_id, 'friendly_name')
or
trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name
thanks for the help, im new to this so learning, not sure how to put all that in a statement, can you provide the exact context you would put it into, this would be in the call notify service
Master {{ state_attr(trigger.entity_id, 'friendly_name') }} is {{ trigger.to_state.state }}
i played around with it and got it to work, thank you so much for your help
this seems to work as well
Master {{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }} is {{ trigger.to_state.state }}
any ideas why it would be showing a garage door as on or off instead of open closed, I have selected them all as show as garage door
We don’t know your complete automation 
this is just to get the state to report not as per the developer mode but rather as the device mode, my dashboard report them as open/close, but i know the default developer state is on/off even is its set to show as a garage door.
on / off is the real state of a binary sensor, open / closed the prettified state displayed in frontend.
The variable {{ trigger.to_state.state }} grabs the real state. If you want open/closed displayed in your message, do this:
Master {{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }} is {{ 'open' if trigger.to_state.state == 'on' else 'closed' }}
Another way to do the same thing:
{{ iif(trigger.to_state.state|bool, 'open', 'closed') }}works perfectly, thank you, any suggestions on where to learn about the yaml context of home assistant, i do have an IT background but havent written code in many many years, im trying to struggle along but really wanna learn, ive built lots of nice stuff but when really getting into the kinds of things above I’m struggling to understand how to do it.