Text value toggle

[fringe ibex]

Trying to figure out the best way to do this - have a home office and my family is forever trying to figure out if I'm in a meeting or not through my closed door. I have an NSPanel right outside my office so I figured using that to somehow display something like "IN MEETING" or "FREE" would be a good idea.

My initial thought was just to create an input_boolean helper that I could use my Stream Deck to easily toggle, but that really only displays "On" or "Off". I started to look into creating a template sensor that outputs something else based on that value but started feeling like perhaps I was going about things in a less than ideal way. If anyone has any suggestions for the cleanest or most expedient way to have what is essentially a toggle between two text values, it would be greatly appreciated!

[fringe ibex]

FWIW, maybe not the cleanest way, but have it working with:

- sensor:
    - name: "Meeting Status"
      unique_id: meeting_status
      state: >-
        {% if is_state('input_boolean.meeting', 'off') %}
          Available
        {% elif is_state('input_boolean.meeting', 'on') %}
          IN MEETING
        {% endif %}
      icon: >-
        {% if is_state('input_boolean.meeting', 'off') %}
          mdi:video-off
        {% elif is_state('input_boolean.meeting', 'on') %}
          mdi:video
        {% endif %}

[haughty gyro]

You can probably create a trigger based template sensor which triggers on the steam deck button

so use the same logic as you now do to toggle the input boolean, and directly use the binary sensor