Hi,
I would like to publish on MQTT server the system time when the the temperature sensor was last updated. How can I get the system time?
My code is below:
automation:
alias: Time Update
hide_entity: False
trigger:
platform: mqtt
topic: “ESP8266/temperature”
action:
service: mqtt.publish
data_template:
topic: “ESP8266/data”
payload_template: ‘{{now}}’
Unfortunatly it is publishing the folowing string “<function now at 0x765cca08>”.
I was thinking is the time in Unix format, but seems to do not change from an update to another.
What is wrong?
I think that now has been changed to now(), as they are functions not variables now.
You’re right, many thanks.