Text and Input Text Entities Stopped Using

[Normanras]

I am not sure if this is an issue yet, so I wanted to ask here first. Is anyone else having an issue with on_change option with certain types of sensors?

I have been using a text sensor as my alert tracker and as of recently, I think v1.3.1, alerts are not being triggered for my text entities despite the sensor being updated. This is the same for input_text (helpers) and text (MQTT). The default yaml is:

alerts:
  - entity: text.bird_detections
    operator: "="
    state: on

And with/without the on_change: true, the alert card doesn't visualize on state change. If I remove on_change and change it to:

alerts:
  - entity: text.bird_detections
    operator: contains
    state: a

then it works, but that seems inefficient and also incorrect for how the on_change option should be working. I tested this with a few different entities, including text, input_text, number, input_number, and sensor and the results were the same.

Happy to move this over to issues if it's truly that, but perhaps I've misconfigured something.

I'm on the following versions:
HA (Docker): 2026.5.2
AlertCard: v1.3.2.5