Conditional rule not working as expected

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Is anyone able to spot what is wrong with this rule?

IF state of Office Bulb = off and Office Motion present
THEN turn on the Office Bulb

this rule execute even when the Office Bulb is already on!

And if you try this:

IF Office Bulb is turned off and Office Motion reports present
THEN turn Office Bulb on

Or:

IF $office-bulb.state = false and ...

@sweebee I am pretty sure I tried everything or almost. I am going home for lunch in few mintues, I’ll see if that syntax has any impact. Thanks

I have the same problem. I also tried the alternatives posted by sweebee (except the last one with $device which resulted in an error). Nothing worked.

Don’t know if its important, but the lamp I want to turn on is a shellswitch device provided by pimatic-shell-execute.
Would appreciate any help with this.

@sebastienvg Would be nice to know if the provided solutions by sweebee are working for you.

@okadesde , @sebastienvg What device do you use? (Plugin and device config.)

config.json:

...
"plugins": [  
  {
  "plugin": "shell-execute"
  },
  {
  "plugin": "gpio"
  },
  ...
],
"devices": [
  {
  "id": "light",
  "name": "Lamp",
  "class": "ShellSwitch",
  "onCommand": "pilight-send -p elro_800_switch -s 15 -u 8 -t",
  "offCommand": "pilight-send -p elro_800_switch -s 15 -u 8 -f"
  },
  {
  "id": "presence",
  "class": "GpioPresence",
  "name": "motion detect",
  "gpio": 22
  },
  ...
],
...

In the “Variables” overview it shows $light.state with the proper attribute “true” or “false” but even …

IF $light.state = false and ...

… didn’t work.

Thanks for the help.