One more "Sensor", to cross. (with BRUH's Multisensor)

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I’m not a programmer, bye any means. So, what code would I need to add(and where) to Ben,s Multisensor’s sketch, so that it would report the WIFI’s signal strength?

I think, this would be nice addion to Ben,s Multisensor’s , to be able to monitor the WIFI’s signal strength, wherever I deploy one of these Nodes…

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Now I have not tested this but I believe you just add line 355 as I have done here. After that you should be able to see it pop up in the JSON that gets sent to MQTT.

https://hastebin.com/edenogizez.ino

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Ok, so I looked at your sketch(@sunnythaper), and added the following; (see the last line)

void sendState() {
  StaticJsonBuffer<BUFFER_SIZE> jsonBuffer;

  JsonObject& root = jsonBuffer.createObject();

  root["state"] = (stateOn) ? on_cmd : off_cmd;
  JsonObject& color = root.createNestedObject("color");
  color["r"] = red;
  color["g"] = green;
  color["b"] = blue;


  root["brightness"] = brightness;
  root["humidity"] = (String)humValue;
  root["motion"] = (String)motionStatus;
  root["ldr"] = (String)LDR;
  root["temperature"] = (String)tempValue;
  root["heatIndex"] = (String)calculateHeatIndex(humValue, tempValue);
  root["signal_strength"] = (String)WiFi.RSSI();        //  ADDED THIS @ Line #355

And when I check the Serial Monitor, I see the following; (see the 'End of the line)

{"state":"OFF","color":{"r":255,"g":255,"b":255},"brightness":255,"humidity":"54.00","motion":"standby","ldr":"768","temperature":"68.00","heatIndex":"67.04","signal_strength":"-58"}

So, it is looking GOOD, so-far, so in the “config.yaml”, I addedthe following:

  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "climate/li-room"
    name: "Signal Strength"
    unit_of_measurement: "db"  
    value_template: '{{ value_json.signal_strength | round(1) }}'

And, this is where I lose it… Because, in hassio, I’m not see the Entity,(sensor.signal.strength) for the above code.

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong???

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Since the value is being sent as a string, I think your

| round(1)

might be to blame. If that’s not it, I’d recheck your state_topic value.

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Removing the

 ! Round(1)

did not help

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I found my mistake, I was looking in the ENTITY list for “livingroom_signal_strength”. But should have been looking for just “signal_strength”.

It"s working now, Thanks sunnythaper…

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