Trying to switch everything in my templates/ configuration from "states." to "states()" and have a question

Configuration
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Hello all. Is there a way to switch the statement below to the “preferred method”. Also, how do I know when I would be better off to switch to the preferred method? Will the logs help me know when variables are not ready (at start up etc.)

        <p>
        The washing machine completed its cycle 
        {% set seconds = now().timestamp() - as_timestamp(states.sensor.washer_status.last_changed) %}
        {% set hours = seconds / 60 %}
        {% if (seconds / ( 60 * 60 )) | int == 1 %}
          over an hour ago.
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state_attr('sensor.washer_status', 'last_changed')

That’s assuming that’s an attribute of that sensor. :slight_smile: I haver some that have that as an attribute. If you’re going after the inbuilt ‘last_changed’ then no, you still use states.xxx.xx.last_changed.

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Yeah in my instance, I was going after the inbuilt and didn’t know how to. It sounds like I did all I could do.

Thank you for this response @calisro and clarifying that for me. Thank you again for being so helpful!!

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FWIW, you can take advantage of newly added functions like as_timedelta() to avoid having to set up all the timestamp math… and make the template a bit more readable.

{% set diff = now() - states.sensor.washer_status.last_changed %}
{% if  diff.days > 0 %}
more than a day ago
{% elif  diff >= as_timedelta("1:00:00") %}
more than an hour ago
{% elif diff >= as_timedelta("0:10:00")%}
more than ten minutes ago
{% endif %}
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Ahhh, nice, thank you for this idea. I like it for sure.