MQTT Sensor Attribute as a Automation Condition

[123 (Taras)]

… and it will stop working the moment the developer fixes this malformed attribute (you don’t include literal string-delimiters in the attribute’s value).

Ariela - Home Assistant Android Client

According to this post, the value Ariela publishes for SSID contains literal double-quotes. I’m not currently using Ariela, so I cannot confirm it, but if it’s true then it’s a mistake. String values, for either states or attributes, should not include literal delimiters (it’s not done anywhere else in Home Assistant). For example, if one’s SSID is myhomenetwork then it should appear in the attribute like this: myhomenetwork not like this: "myhomenetwork"

If your template uses in instead of == it will work if the ssid attribute does or does not contain literal double-quotes.

[toofewacres]

Hopefully the developer will fix this quickly. At least we know what the issue is now.

[123 (Taras)]

@toofewacres

At least we know what the issue is now.

The issue was evident 5 hours ago when I wrote this:

@123

The implication is that the string it displays for SSID may contain spaces (at either end) or special characters (like a literal newline or something else that isn’t readily visible).

What I didn’t count on was that it was readily visible but your eyes were editing out the double-quotes surrounding the SSID value and only reporting the string between them.

When the Template Editor reports this:

"myssid"

it is not the same as this:

myssid

[toofewacres]

Lesson learned…

[Ionut (Ionut Cristea)]

Hello,

The next version of Ariela will going to have the quotes of the SSID removed. Hope its ok.