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How do I get medium-sized datasets into hass?

I am using REST from external sources, but as I don’t have a webserver I need some other way to get a few thousand numbers into hass.
I’ve spent two days fiddling with MQTT now, only to realize, that packages apparently are limited to 256 bytes:

and

My configuration.yaml:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Prognoser"
    state_topic: "homeassistant/prognoser"
    unit_of_measurement: ""
    value_template : "{{ value_json }}"

Without the last line I can get data into hass, with the last line, it drops the messages - and I’ll probably still have the 256 bytes limitation.

seems to be an option, but is there anything better?

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Attributes don’t have the size restriction

3

Thanks!

I’ve tried to add attributes to my communication, and it worked - after having found out that strings were a no-no

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