How to get value from an Attribute with a space in it?

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First time post, trying to look for some help that I can’t find an answer for.

I am trying to setup a template sensor with an attribute from inside the Xbox Live Sensor. The sensor has some attributes that have spaces in them and I can’t figure out how to get their values.

Attributes shown in the developer tools states menu are below:

XboxOne Background: Home
XboxOne Full: Plex
friendly_name: PawnyNZ
icon: mdi:xbox

I can successfully get the friendly name value via:

value_template: ‘{{ states.sensor.xbox_pawnynz.attributes.friendly_name }}’

But I can’t for the life of me find out how to get the XboxOne Full attribute which has the space in the attribute name.

Any help is appreciated.

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Did you tried replacing the space by an underscore? So XboxOne_Full

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Yeah, tried that but no luck in getting the value.

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I found a way to do it. With the GTFS sensor, this is the template I’m using to get the Route Short Name attribute:

{{ states.sensor.tisseo_work_home.attributes['Route Short Name'] }}

Your attribute could probably be fetched with this template:

value_template: '{{ states.sensor.xbox_pawnynz.attributes["XboxOne Full"] }}'
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Try to go to YOUR_IP::8123/dev-template and enter:
{{ states.sensor.xbox_pawnynz.attributes }}

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Awesome!
I can confirm that the below works and realised how great the Dev Template section is for checking. And here I was restarting Home Assistant every time I wanted to change something ><

value_template: ‘{{ states.sensor.pawnynz.attributes[“XboxOne Full”] }}’

So now I can start making some automation’s based on what I am doing on the Xbox.

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If anyone is interested for using this for themselves, I ended up with the template sensor setup as the below so that the sensor shows as Offline rather than null/nothing when the Xbox is turned off.
Note: replace “pawnynz” with your xbox live ID:

  xboxapi_current:
    value_template: '{% if is_state("sensor.pawnynz", "Offline") %}Offline{% else %}{{ states.sensor.pawnynz.attributes["XboxOne Full"] }}{% endif %}'
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To get some attribute values from QNAP, this did worked for me:

{{ ((states.sensor.qnap_xyz_memory_usage.attributes['Memory Size'] )) }}

Thanks a lot

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That seems to work fine with strings, unfortunately I have to process a date in such an attribute.
This works fine in template editor, but when I try to put it into a template helper I get “strptime() argument 1 must be str, not TupleWrapper”

Any ideas?
Thanks

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Paste in the code that is working in the template editor (formatted as code!) and a screenshot of the template helper screen.

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{{states.sensor.smart_irrigation_garten.attributes['last calculated']|first}}
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Sorry, I found the problem: I specified the device calss as Date and the value is string.

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Glad to hear it.

It’s always safer to use bracket format and the functions for accessing states and attributes — see here, including the warning at the bottom of the section:

So you would be safer to use:

{{ state_attr('sensor.smart_irrigation_garten', 'last calculated')|first }}

This applies to all of this recently-resurrected thread: I suspect state_attr() was not available in 2016.