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1

Good Morning,

Iam failing to scrape a very simple website
(its about reading values from a BHKW dachs senertec)

Basically it has a webservice like
http://192.168.1.218:8080/getKey?k=Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung

with auth

the result ist straight

Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=5.534

No div, body, nothing

Any ideas how I can get the 5.534 in a sensor (without hardcoding it :smiley:) ?

I tried rest and scrape sensor

  1. Rest did return the result but I got a state that is Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=5.534 and Iam not able to work with that

  2. Scrape results in error I tried to scrape for Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung or body, pre but did not work.

Hope someone can help me :frowning:

2

You can remove everything but the value fairly easily with the value_template and regex or just the function replace().

What was your rest sensor config?

3

Thank you for your fast reply it was pretty basic :frowning: Iam not very good working with value templates and regexp, but I hope I can learn a bit from you

the sensor looked like

which results in the sensor bhkw Test state:

Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=5.523

or more values

which results in the state:

Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=5.523
Hka_Mw1.ulMotorlaufsekunden=4800

4

Please have a read of point 11 here: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question
then edit your post.

But this should do it:

- platform: rest
  name: BHKW Test
  resource: http://192.168.1.218:8080/getKey?k=Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung
  headers:
  authorization: Basic Z2x0Og==
  value_template: "{{ value | replace('Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=', '') }}"

You could also use this value template:

  value_template: "{{ value | regex_findall_index('\-?\d+\.?\d+') }}"
5

:frowning:

Sorry for the format and thank you very much for your help. It works perfect for one value !

Sorry last question do you see any options how could I extract multiple values at once and add this as atributes ?

e.g.

  name: BHKW Test
  resource: http://192.168.1.218:8080/getKey?k=Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung&k=Hka_Mw1.ulMotorlaufsekunden
  headers:
   authorization: Basic Z2x0Og==
  value_template: "{{ value | replace('Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=', '') }}"

Results in

Hka_Mw1.ulMotorlaufsekunden=3.486
Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung=5.528

I checked https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/templating/ and found the reg exp but I am unsure about placing multiple statements and adding them to value atributes. If you have articles to read Iam also happy to try it myself

6

The restful sensor does not support attribute templates so you will have to make two sensors.

First one:

- platform: rest
  name: 'BHKW Test 1'
  resource: http://192.168.1.218:8080/getKey?k=Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung&k=Hka_Mw1.ulMotorlaufsekunden
  headers:
    authorization: Basic Z2x0Og==
  value_template: "{{ value | regex_findall_index('\-?\d+\.?\d+', index=0) }}"

Second one:

- platform: rest
  name: 'BHKW Test 2'
  resource: http://192.168.1.218:8080/getKey?k=Hka_Mw1.sWirkleistung&k=Hka_Mw1.ulMotorlaufsekunden
  headers:
    authorization: Basic Z2x0Og==
  value_template: "{{ value | regex_findall_index('\-?\d+\.?\d+', index=1) }}"
7

thank you very much for your time ! It was a great help and I was able to learn something