RESTful Sensor Status

Hello clever people.

I’ve got a sound system where I need to know if its in ‘line-in’ mode. I cant get it to work… I can get the status using a RESTful command which returns the following -

content: >-
  {"type":"0","ch":"0","mode":"40","loop":"0","eq":"0","status":"play","curpos":"26000","offset_pts":"0","totlen":"235000","Title":"556E6B6E6F776E","Artist":"556E6B6E6F776E","Album":"556E6B6E6F776E","alarmflag":"0","plicount":"0","plicurr":"0","vol":"71","mute":"0"}
status: 200

So I’ve making a sensor as follows -

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: Courtyard Mode
    icon: mdi:guitar-acoustic
    resource: http://192.168.1.123/httpapi.asp?command=getPlayerStatus
    method: get
    value_template: >
      {% if value_json.content = "mode":"40" %}
        line-in
      {% else %}
        unknown
      {% endif %}

Does anyone know what I’ve got wrong?

CHANGE:
{% if value_json.mode == “40” %}

Thanks but its still not having it… just telling me ‘invalid config’

rest:
  resource: http://192.168.1.123/httpapi.asp?command=getPlayerStatus
  method: GET
  scan_interval: 60
  sensor:
    - name: "Courtyard Mode"
      icon: mdi:guitar-acoustic
      value_template: >
        {% if value_json.mode == '40' %}
          line-in
        {% else %}
          unknown
        {% endif %}

You absolute legend. I’ve been messing about with this for hours. Should have asked on here earlier.

Works perfectly :+1:

Thanks

I solved it in 30 seconds by asking ChatGPT,
I copied the json and {% if value_json.content = “mode”:“40” %} and that’s it

I’ve tried Chat GPT in the past for things like this and it got it wrong… but that was a couple of years ago so will give it a go next time