Extract value from json

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

This is eerily familiar:

Parsing json (I think...)

I Think I need some help from the python gurus on here. I’ve been trying for a couple of days now to figure out why what I’m trying to do isn’t working and I’m obviously missing something. I would like to take the output of a custom component that creates an attribute and parse the result to extract certain keys. I’ve copied the text of the attribute exactly as it is into the template editor and I can dig into it and get out exactly what I want. So that’s all good. But when I use the same sy…

The string is coming from here:

  - platform: rest
    resource: http://192.168.1.44/api.cgi?cmd=GetMdState&user=admin&password=xxxxx
    name: motion_test

@pnbruckner @petro feel free to weigh in.