Hi,
I have data coming off my solar system, which is time stamped, however it may take time before it gets written to a file that HA accesses or HA reading the data in the file, so the time in HA is often not correct, I assume its the time HA reads the file.
in my configuration file I have a sensor:
- platform: command_line
name: Real_Time_Power
command: 'tail -n 1 /config/externaldata/solar.txt'
value_template: '{{ value_json.Real_Time_Power }}'
unit_of_measurement: "W"
solar.txt format is:
{"Date":"2021-04-09","Time_Updated":"14:05","Real_Time_Power":"4016","Solar_Today":"22.7"}
How can I set the time of the data within HA to what is sent form the solar inverter.
Is there also a better way of reading the data from the file ? I did try the below setup but it didn’t work.
-platform: file
name: Real_Time_Power
file_path: /config/externaldata/solar.txt
value_template: '{{ value_json.Real_Time_Power }}'
unit_of_measurement: "W"
Thanks for any help