Platform: command_line. sensor is not applied

Configuration
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sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: "MeinTestSensor"
    unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
    command: "/bin/echo HalloWelt"
    scan_interval: 60

can someone add this to their /homeassistant/configuration.yaml and restart it?

Do you then have a “test” sensor?
If not => am I doing something wrong here?
P.s. The log has no errors in it. (sometimes screwed up to debug)

Or asked differently. This code is a minimal test because my own plan does not work.

I am trying to read a JSON file and pass it into a sensor.

sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: solarprognose_raw_json_hourly_NEU
    command: “cat /config/solarprognose.json”
    scan_interval: 60

But is not created either. Maybe there are other possibilities?

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Have you read the documentation for the Command Line integration? Your syntax does not match what is described there. The current syntax should be:

command_line:
  - sensor:
      command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"

(Also your second code example looks like it uses a different type of quote, and may in the final sensor require the full path /bin/cat written out.)

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grafik

I don’t quite follow you.
I read the documentary and I BELIEVE I understood it.
’ I only need it for masking.

I don’t need to mask anything for my commands.

I have uploaded it again as an image. With the 2nd command, the editor made something else out of it. I used “ (key 2)

Edit: /bin/cat added + reboot.
The sensor is still not created

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Read the documentation again. Your code does not look like any of the examples in the documentation. You are using an outdated syntax, a command line sensor is no longer defined by a platform: command_line entry but by a top level command_line: header.

5

sorry… I don’t get it.
These are the lines I have tested. But each one gives an error so I can’t restart at all.
Do you have a working code as an example?

command_line:
  - name: "MeinTestSensor"
    unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
    command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"
    scan_interval: 60


command_line:
  sensors:
    - name: "MeinTestSensor"
      unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
      command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"
      scan_interval: 60



command_line:
  mein_test_sensor:
    name: "MeinTestSensor"
    unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
    command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"
    scan_interval: 60



sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: "MeinTestSensor"
    unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
    command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"
    scan_interval: 60
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I really don’t see what is difficult about it. Just use a syntax that is identical to what is used in the documentation examples? None of what you have posted so far do. This does:

command_line:
  - sensor:
      name: "MeinTestSensor"
      unique_id: "my_unique_test_sensor_xyz"
      command: "/bin/echo Hello World!"
      scan_interval: 60

(Does it work? No idea, I don’t have any command_line sensors, and cannot be bothered to restart HASS right now to test. But this is how the documentation says that they should be written.)

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THANKS !!! Works