Media player state condition not working

@PeteS wrote:

Hello, I’m trying to automate my lights and part of that is that I don’t want them to turn off when we’re watching TV. I’ve tried a state condition and a template condition with no success. Currently I have the below:

- id: '1575647713901'
  alias: Living Room Off PIR
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.living_room_pir_sensor_occupancy
    for: 00:15:00
    from: 'on'
    platform: state
    to: 'off'
  condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ states('media_player.living_room_shield') == 'off' }}"
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: light.living_room
    service: light.turn_off

Testing the template in the developer tools returns False but when I trigger the automation, the lights still turn off. I’ve got Home Assistant running on my RPi3 using docker and the version/build is 0.101.0.dev20191018.

Please help!

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