New input select not giving any state in nodered

[drifting tapir]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for it, point me elsewhere if so! I have a nodered flow which checks the state of an input select. I copied it, from another one for a different input select which works fine. I tried to add a new input select in yaml, and it didn't create it like it used to, so I deleted that and added one through the UI. It shows up in states window and has values that can be selected. However, this one, when tested for it's state in nodered, just returns empty. Have I missed some breaking change re input selects, yaml and nodered ? thanks

(I've restarted nodered and home assistant)

this works, it's an old input_select (adds the correct payload to the message)

this does not work

and here it is in states

[white arch]

Why quotes around Ambient ?

[drifting tapir]

good question - because it wasn't working so I thought I'd try "", but that doesn't work either. I just changed it back and it's still not working