REST sensor does not return attributes

Configuration
1

I'm trying to make a sensor to retrieve tide data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, need some help getting it to work.

The data comes from here: https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/scripts/getNextTides.php?aac=SA_TP002&offset=false&tz=Australia%2FAdelaide

which returns this

{ "results": { "current_time": 1781604826, "next_high": { "time": 1781640240, "height": 1.43 }, "next_low": { "time": 1781619840, "height": 0.48 } } }

My configuration.yaml has this

rest:
  - resource: https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/scripts/getNextTides.php?aac=SA_TP002&offset=false&tz=Australia%2FAdelaide
    scan_interval: 3600
    sensor:
      - name: port_giles_tides
        value_template: "OK"
        json_attributes_path: "$.results.next_high"
        json_attributes:
          - "time"
          - "height"

All I'm getting is a status of OK and no attributes. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing, trying the same syntax on a sample json site with the same levels of nesting works fine.

Kevin

2

what about just making them separate sensors?

rest:
  - resource: https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/scripts/getNextTides.php?aac=SA_TP002&offset=false&tz=Australia%2FAdelaide
    scan_interval: 3600
    sensor:
      - name: Next High Tide
        value_template: "{{ value_json.results.next_high.time | as_datetime | as_local }}"
        device_class: timestamp
        unique_id: next_high_tide

      - name: Next High Tide Height
        value_template: "{{ value_json.results.next_high.height }}"
        device_class: distance
        unit_of_measurement: m
        unique_id: next_high_tide_height
3

Thanks Petro. Tried this, and I get a status returned of 'unknown'.

Is there a way to check that HA is getting the same JSON from the web link as my browser?

4

Yes, turn on debugging for that integration and watch the logs

5

If you set it up as a Rest command the response variable shows:

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6

Try adding a user agent so it looks like a web browser.

rest:
  - resource: https://www.bom.gov.au/Etc...
    headers:
      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
      Content-Type: application/json
7

Thanks all, this was the problem.