Help with data format

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I use Weather Display for my weather station and am using thr clientraw integration to bring some local data to my dashboard.

Over the weekend I decided to obtain some different data using mqtt from Weather Display to my system. That was interesting but doable.

I am at the point of being stuck on how to format the data. For example, temp comes back as wd{ 19 }. I’m sure there a json call to extract the data and that is where I need help.

Thanks

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Please post the sensor config you are using. If a sensor returns the string wd{ 19 } which is not valid json, you can extract the number with the following template:

value_template: '{{ value.split("{")[1].split("}")[0] | int }}'
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  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Temperature"
    icon: mdi:thermometer
    state_topic: "temp"
    unit_of_measurement: ''
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Thank you for the help.

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Try this:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Temperature"
    icon: mdi:thermometer
    state_topic: "temp"
    unit_of_measurement: '°C'  # or °F 
    value_template: '{{ value.split("{")[1].split("}")[0] | int }}'
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On the data that are integers, it’s working great. Thank you.

I have some that are float example baro reading wd{ 30.458 } returns 0

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on the data that did not have units attached and were floating point, I changed the int to float and that is working perfectly.

Enough for tonight, start fresh tomorrow.

Thanks again

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For the mph units ones, you can try:

value_template: '{{ value.split("{")[1].split("mph }")[0] | int }}'

The second split need to match what is to the left of the closing bracket, inluding any space characters.

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Just wanted to thank you again for the help. I was able to use the example to extract data that had units. And later on used it to extract string data.

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You can simply slice off the unwanted characters from the value.

For example, this removes the first four characters and the last two:

value_template: "{{ value[4:-2] }}"

In other words, if the data is wd{ 30.458 } it will return 30.458

If it’s wd{ 13.0 mph } we need to remove the first four characters and the last six:

value_template: "{{ value[4:-6] }}"

The result will be 13.0

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