Hi all,
I know this has been done to death but I couldn’t find any information on my particular problemI have an automation that uses doods to recognise a car in the camera feed, it then activates the platerecogniser addon to identify my license plate this is setup as a template as binary sensor and opens the gate. This individually works ok but the problem is that once the plate recogniser service recognises a plate its state variables stay the same so I can never subsequently trigger it unless it gets a false read in the mean time. So I setup set_state.py and that works ok for doods as the overall state is set to a number so I can easily set that back to 0 after the event and all is well but the platerecogniser has state attributes if I set the state is has no effect on the state attributes (I believe it used to? but was raised as a bug and subsequently changed). Can you set state attributes? and if so please let me know what that would look like or if their is a better way of doing this.
plate recogniser state attributes:
last_detection: null
vehicles:
- {}
orientation: []
watched_plates:
plate123: false
plate234: false
statistics:
total_calls: 2500
usage:
year: 2023
month: 10
resets_on: '2023-10-18T12:26:52.116715Z'
calls: 50
calls_remaining: 2450
regions:
- gb
- ie
save_file_folder: /media
save_timestamped_file: true
always_save_latest_file: true
unit_of_measurement: plate
friendly_name: platerecognizer_local_file
My binary sensor template triggers on watched plates plate1234 changing to true but once that happens it wont trigger again unless it triggers without seeing one of the plates. I could do with resetting that attribute back to false…any ideas?
Thanks
Steve