I'm stuck with REST, sensors don't show up

Configuration
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Hi,

I’m completely stuck with my first REST sensor and I need someone with experience to help me out (or point me in the right direction)…

I’ve filled the configuration.yaml with the most basic example:

rest:
  - resource: http://ip.jsontest.com
    sensor:
      - name: test_rest
        value_template: "{{ value_json.ip }}"

The reason for the RESTFull instead of the REST Sensor is that I tried the sensor first and I couldn’t get that to work as well.

After a full restart of the home-assistant I don’t see the new sensor “test_rest” in my system. (Development → States → search on test_rest, nothing found)

I see in the logging that the sensor actually retrieves my IP address every 15 seconds, so it must be doing something. But how do I get the value in an entity which I can use in an automation or the dashboard?

Extract from the logging:

2024-11-15 15:24:11.759 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rest.data] Updating from http://ip.jsontest.com
2024-11-15 15:24:11.970 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rest] Finished fetching rest data data in 0.212 seconds (success: True)
2024-11-15 15:24:11.971 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rest.data] Data fetched from resource: {"ip": "2001:4c3c:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx"}

Any help would be very very welcome!

Thank you all very much for assisting me.

Kind regards,
Marco

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Name is meant to be the friendly name. Try replacing the underscore with a space. The generated entity id will have the underscore in it automatically.

rest:
  - resource: http://ip.jsontest.com
    sensor:
      - name: "Test Rest"
        value_template: "{{ value_json.ip }}"
3

Thank you @atlflyer!

The spaces or underscores in the name actually didn’t matter, but when I added the quotes, it worked!

Sometimes it just needs the eyes of the master :slight_smile: