MQTT State Stream include filtering problem

Configuration
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I am trying to thin out the state stream. Here’s what I have now:

08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/state u"22.5"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/node_id u"3"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/value_instance u"1"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/value_id u"“72057594093256722"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/friendly_name u"“Gulvvarme 2"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/unit_of_measurement u"“\u00b0C”"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_temperature/value_index u"1"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/state u"0.0"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/node_id u"3"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/value_instance u"1"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/value_id u"“72057594093273090"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/friendly_name u"“Gulvvarme 3"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_unknown/unit_of_measurement u"“kWh”"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/state u"False"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/node_id u"3"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/value_instance u"1"
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/value_id u"“72057594093273600"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/friendly_name u"“Gulvvarme 1"”
08:46:28 MQTT.eg/sensor/termostat_8_exporting/value_index u"32"

I only need the first info, so I tried to filter for that in the configuration file:

MQTT State stream

mqtt_statestream:
base_topic: eg
publish_attributes: true
include:
domains:
- lock
- binary_sensor
- switch
- sensor
entities:
- sensor.Termostat_8_temperature.state

(There should be the necessary spaces in the code, but for some reason the code view here on the forum removes leading spaces, I think.) But that give me an error message that I really don’t get much out of:

Invalid config for [mqtt_statestream]: Entity ID sensor.termostat_8_temperature.state is an invalid entity id for dictionary value @ data[‘mqtt_statestream’][‘include’][‘entities’]. Got [‘sensor.Termostat_8_temperature.state’]. (See /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml, line 77). Please check the docs at MQTT Statestream - Home Assistant

I first thought that it meant that there was a misprint in the entry, but there isn’t. It looks like it reads it as sensor.termostat while in the file it’s actually sensor.Termostat, like it says after “got”.

Edit: I also tried to replace the underscores in the 8 with .8. but that didn’t change anything.

Can somebody please tell me what’s wrong with this configuration?

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See the instructions in the big blue box at the top of every page on how to format yaml in posts

The entity id is sensor.Termostat_8_temperature so just remove the .state from the end, and you should be fine.

3

I tried the manual formatting and messed it up badly…

But thanks! Does that mean that I can’t filter a single message like that? If that’s so I have to find another way because it leaves too much clutter.

4

I have never used MQTT Statestream so I don’t know its capabilities.

An entity id is a specific thing in HA consisting of <component>.<id> which is what the error message said it was looking for, so that field will not be able to specify any more detail.

5

OK, thanks. Then I will find an alternative solution.

6

Would it possible to filter the only id say state only in the future? I am facing the same problem here, currently LOADS OF mqtt msgs are published and flash my mqtt server like a hell(even exclude most of them)… I am a bit worry about those loads of msgs may someday crash the poor mqtt server eventually(a poor pi3 mqtt server), in fact I think we certainly no need a topic like icon, friendly_name etc... But a noob like me have no idea how to get only the state topic, please someone help, thanks guys

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I probably have 300 entities (from 3 HA instances) updating to my mqtt server on a mac I don’t see any slow down with statestream without filtering.

I think you can filter just like history so this should just give you one entities state only.

statestream:
  publish_attributes: false
  include:
    entities:
      - sensor.Termostat_8_temperature