WTH Unnecessary brightness check for none when dimmer light is turned off

[petro]

@Hazze

My scripts has stopped working so I believe that the attribute used to return 0 instead of disappearing when turned off.

Nope. Brightness has never been an attribute when the light is off. Your template was silently erroring before, now it's exposed as a real error. This was announced last October when default was added to int. Before, it would default to 0, now the user has to specify a default.

Updating Templates with the new default values in 2021.10.x

I keep seeing the same question about the new default argument for the templating. This post will cover all possible ways to define default. All the methods that were changed: acos as_timestamp asin atan atan2 cos float log round sin sqrt strptime tan timestamp_custom timestamp_local timestamp_utc Each of them have the exact same default functionality but a different number of arguments. There are multiple ways to use these functions, and this is where all the confusion lies. Understandi…

To correct your template...

    value_template: "{{ state_attr('light.sovrum_vagg','brightness') | int(0) < 225}}"