Automation template trigger not working

[dapper cosmos]

entity_id:
  - sensor.charger_energy_session
to: "{{ states('input_number.input_number.car_charger_kwh_selector') | int }}"

The above isnt triggering when charger_energy_session becomes the same value as the input_number.

The input number has no decimals but the other one has a lot of decimals, around 10 behind the comma.
Maybe thats ehat causing the trigger not to fire?
Or is something else wrong?

[frigid trellis]

try triggering on the entity changing and add a template condition that checks if its the same

template for the condition should be written as true/false output

[dapper cosmos]

How would i go about that?

[frigid trellis]

trigger on state change
then condition would be something like
{{ states('input_number.input_number.car_charger_kwh_selector') == states('sensor.charger_energy_session') }}

that would pass the condition if the values are the same

its currently an exact match required though so may not trigger depending on sensor polling, so depending on accuracy requirement you could make it a bit more relaxed

or change to >= instead of ==

{{ states('input_number.input_number.car_charger_kwh_selector')|float|round(0) == states('sensor.charger_energy_session')|float|round(0) }}
would be how to relax it for example

[graceful vault]

You can’t template state triggers