Why isn’t there a logic NOT operator when writing automations?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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Maybe I’m missing it but sometimes when I write an automation I want to check if an entity is NOT in a state.

For example my dryer can be in one of four states: idle, running, finishing or dry.

I would like to be able to do: if clothes_dryer NOT idle do something.

Right now in order to make that happen, I say: if clothes_dryer is (running or finishing or dry) do something.

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There is! Multiple actually

:slight_smile:

There is the not condition:

Which is available in both YAML & the UI and can be wrapped around anything.

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Awesome. Thanks frenck. I thought there had to be a way, I was just coming up empty on my searches.

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Hey! An easy WTH to solve, no programming involved even :joy: I’ll take it :smiley:

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