Binary sensor not updating with time change

@FutureTense wrote:

I have the following binary sensor which should return true if the current time falls in between the values of two input_datetime entities. If I set the “end” input_datetime to the current time the sensor reports True as expected. However, when the time moves past the end time the sensor still reports true.

I actually have an additional input_boolean as part of this binary_sensor (not shown) and if I turn it off and on after the time progresses the sensor reports the correct value.

Why isn’t the sensor updating every time “now().strftime(’%H%M’)” changes? Any ideas on how I can fix this?

    range_sensor:
      value_template: "{{

((states.input_datetime.starttime.attributes.timestamp  | timestamp_custom('%H%M', False) | int ) | int  <=  (now().strftime('%H%M')  | timestamp_custom('%H%M', False) | int)) and 

  ((states.input_datetime.endtime.attributes.timestamp  | timestamp_custom('%H%M', False) | int ) | int  >=  (now().strftime('%H%M')  | timestamp_custom('%H%M', False) | int)) }}"

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