Use state value for below condition in automation

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi guys, I’m new to the forum, I was really hoping someone could help me with a condition in an automation… I’ve created an input_number slider to adjust a temperature setpoint. Now I’m trying to use that entity state (which is a temperature I wish to compare) in an automation. But under numeric_state, I can only input the value above or below I wish to trigger an action. I would really like to be able to use the slider value to be the condition below which value the automation should run

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Do you mean you have another entity that represents the current temperature (in my example below I call it sensor.cur_temp), and you want to trigger an automation if that entity goes below your input_number entity? If so, then you can use a template trigger. Something like this:

automation:
  - alias: Temp drops below threshold
    trigger:
      platform: template
      value_template: >
        {{ states('sensor.cur_temp')|float < states('input_number.low_threshold')|float }}
    actions:
      ...

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Hi, thank you for the reply. I managed to fix it a while back. Solution was very similar to your suggestion:

- id: '1529959612041'
  alias: Nursery Min Temperature
  trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: '{{ (states.sensor.nursery_temperature.state | float) <= ((states.input_number.target_nursery_temp.state
      | float) - 0.1) }}'
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: switch.nursery_heater_switch
    service: switch.turn_on