Why do we get a description like ‘Bathroom motion changes to off’ rather than ‘Bathroom motion changes to clear’ ?
I was triggered by this, and tested it myself.
If I use a device trigger (which I normally never do) I get this:
If I use a state trigger, I get this:
The last one seems to match your WTF. But you are creating a state trigger checking for the state off
, so why should it say clear
then?
Because, when I select the state for the entity a list appears with the friendly state names.
Having said this, although I can select ‘clear’ from the list the state field contains 'off '.
Ah your right, the GUI uses the states based on the device_class
. However, the actual states will be on
or off