IMAP email sensor with multiple attributes?

Configuration
1

Im new to HA & trying to setup a imap content sensor which should be able to read multiple attributes from email body. So far i have sucessfully intrigated my gmail and sensor is working fine.

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: "imap_content"
        id: "GPSposition"
        event_data:
          subject: pos
    sensor:
      - name: gayangps
        state: "{{ trigger.event.data['date'] }}"
        attributes:
          latitude: "WHAT SHOULD BE HERE"
          longitude: "WHAT SHOULD BE HERE"

My requirement is to use this sensor as a tracker to show position in a map. Position is received by an email with subject of ¨pos¨.

How to get these two attributes,Latitude and Longitude to be identified from email body? I can customize email body in anyway since its manually sent.

Or is there anyother method to achieve my goal?

2

If you have control over the message and you won’t be including anything else in the message body, one option is to format it as json like: {"latitude": 123, "longitude": 654}.

Then you can extract those values in you attributes using the from_json() filter:

IMAP Content sensor 
template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: "imap_content"
        id: "GPSposition"
        event_data:
          subject: pos
    sensor:
      - name: gayangps
        state: "{{ trigger.event.data['date'] }}"
        attributes:
          latitude: "{{ (trigger.event.data['text']|from_json)['latitude'] }}"
          longitude: "{{ (trigger.event.data['text']|from_json)['longitude'] }}"

However, if the end goal is to create a device tracker, and you don’t actually need the intermediary sensor, you might be better off using the event trigger in an automation with a service call to device_tracker.see. Just make sure you make the trigger event data as specific as possible.

alias: Assign GPS Coords from Email content 
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: "imap_content"
    id: "GPSposition"
    event_data:
      subject: pos
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data['initial'] }}"
action:
  - variable:
      text_json: "{{ trigger.event.data['text']|from_json }}"
  - service: device_tracker.see
    data:
      dev_id: example
      gps: "{{ [text_json.latitude, text_json.longitude] }}"
3

Thanks for reply. I did as you said but then got this error in log

> ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for 'template' at configuration.yaml, line 25: invalid template (TemplateSyntaxError: unexpected ')') for dictionary value 'sensor->0->attributes->latitude', got "{{ trigger.event.data['text']|from_json)['latitude'] }}"

4

There is a missing ( between {{ and trigger.

"{{ (trigger....
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