Please help with my Rest sensor

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Hi Home Assistant experts

I’ve created a rest sensor that captures the current days’ TV guide for UK’s BBC 1. I’m trying to set the state of the sensor to the current programme name. Here’s my Yaml so far:

# TV Listings
- resource: "https://www.freesat.co.uk/tv-guide/api/0?channel=560"
  scan_interval: 28800
  sensor:
  - name: Freesat BBC One
    value_template: >-
      {% for event in value_json ??? %}
      {% if event.startTime < as_timestamp(now()) and event.startTime + event.duration > as_timestamp(now())%}
      {{ event.name }}
      {% endif %}
      {% endfor %}
    json_attributes_path: "$.0"
    json_attributes:
      - event

Do you know what I should use where I have the ‘???’ to get the collection of events?

Here’s a sample of what the web request returns:

[
    {
        "channelid": 560,
        "offset": 0,
        "event": [
            {
                "name": "Breakfast",
                "description": "The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. [S] [HD]",
                "startTime": 1721106000,
                "duration": 12600,
                "svcId": 560,
                "evtId": 26072,
                "image": "/ms/img/epg/rb/ae0c-p0fxfnwr.jpg",
                "hasTstv": true,
                "tstv": {
                    "sid": 919,
                    "availabilityStart": 1721116800,
                    "availabilityEnd": 1721204940,
                    "mediaAvailable": false,
                    "mediaLocation": "channel=919&programmeid=_DTT_m002150w&ui_id=4.0.0"
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "Morning Live",
                "description": "Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier. [S] [HD]",
                "startTime": 1721118600,
                "duration": 4500,
                "svcId": 560,
                "evtId": 26073,
                "image": "/ms/img/epg/rb/ae0c-p0j52029.jpg",
                "hasTstv": true,
                "tstv": {
                    "sid": 919,
                    "availabilityStart": 1721123095,
                    "availabilityEnd": 1752659095,
                    "mediaAvailable": false,
                    "mediaLocation": "channel=919&programmeid=m002150y&ui_id=4.0.0"
                },
                "seriesNo": 6,
                "episodeNo": 57
            }
        ]
    }
]

Thanks

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Copy this in Dev.tools > Template and then you can play around

{% set value_json = [
    {
        "channelid": 560,
        "offset": 0,
        "event": [
            {
                "name": "Breakfast",
                "description": "The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. [S] [HD]",
                "startTime": 1721106000,
                "duration": 12600,
                "svcId": 560,
                "evtId": 26072,
                "image": "/ms/img/epg/rb/ae0c-p0fxfnwr.jpg",
                "hasTstv": true,
                "tstv": {
                    "sid": 919,
                    "availabilityStart": 1721116800,
                    "availabilityEnd": 1721204940,
                    "mediaAvailable": false,
                    "mediaLocation": "channel=919&programmeid=_DTT_m002150w&ui_id=4.0.0"
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "Morning Live",
                "description": "Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier. [S] [HD]",
                "startTime": 1721118600,
                "duration": 4500,
                "svcId": 560,
                "evtId": 26073,
                "image": "/ms/img/epg/rb/ae0c-p0j52029.jpg",
                "hasTstv": true,
                "tstv": {
                    "sid": 919,
                    "availabilityStart": 1721123095,
                    "availabilityEnd": 1752659095,
                    "mediaAvailable": false,
                    "mediaLocation": "channel=919&programmeid=m002150y&ui_id=4.0.0"
                },
                "seriesNo": 6,
                "episodeNo": 57
            }
        ]
    }
] %}

{% for event in value_json.0.event %}
{% if event.startTime < as_timestamp(now()) and event.startTime + event.duration > as_timestamp(now())%}
{{ event.name }}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
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Hi @vingerha

Thank you so much. Not only have you solved my specif issue but, I think you have shown me how to solve many Rest sensor issues.