Sonoff Tasmota latest firmware sensor?

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I note on the Tasmota github that:

Bonus - Update Notification: @smadds also publishes the latest released version number to a publicly available MQTT server which may be subscribed to at sonoff.maddox.co.uk:1883 with the topic sonoff-version. No authentication needed.

I’m at a bit of a loss as to how to add this as a sensor to my configuration.yaml?

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mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t ‘#’
gives v5.14.0

Maybe as a command-line sensor.

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will that command work on hassio?

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I’m on hassbian, not sure how command-line sensor works on hassio, sorry.

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Ok from SSH this works:

mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t sonoff-version

I’ll try and setup a command line sensor

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Tried this:

# Sonoff Firmware Version
  - platform: command_line
    command: "mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t sonoff-version"
    name: Sonoff Firmware Version
#    scan_interval: 86400
    value_template: '{{ value }}'

I’m only getting a -
same as when I didn’t use a value template.
I am seeing a sensor.sonoff_firmware_version but it’s showing as unknown

Checked the log:
Command failed: mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t sonoff-version

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For what it’s worth, this works for me:

  - platform: command_line
    name: tasmota_version
    command: "mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t '#' -C 1"

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I had added the C1 - I’m just trying that now. It didn’t like the # before but it works from ssh so I’ll try now.

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Command failed: mosquitto_sub -h sonoff.maddox.co.uk -t ‘#’ -C 1

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Then probably that narrowed down to the difference between hassbian vs hassio in handling the command in command-line sensor which is beyond me.

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Thanks. It’s just weird it works from the command line and also in the terminal

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Does anyone on the day shift have any idea about this?

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mosquitto_sub is not available in the hass.io docker container.
When you ssh to hassio, you’re in a terminal of the host, not the container.

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So is there any other way I can do this?

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Played a little with curl and cut.
This works in hassio on a ubuntu 16.04 server.

  - platform: command_line
    name: "Latest Tasmota"
    command: "curl -s https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/releases/latest | cut -d'\"' -f2 | rev | cut -d'/' -f1 | rev"
    scan_interval: 600

Don’t know if this works in the future.

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Wow! Well that works for now anyway. Thanks. Hopefully they don’t change the URL.

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Tried this on my Pi just running stretch to try and understand the command (also so if the path changes or something like that I can try and fix it myself if I understand it - I’m a linux noob for the most part) and it does not like the cut -d’"’ - says the cut -d can only have 1 character. cut -d’"’ works though.

Also tried it from ssh on resinos (hassio) Pi and same error.

Just curious why it works when I put it in the command as you show it here?

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So I found out that Hassio strips the \ out.

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Not sure, was trial and error. :slightly_smiling_face:
The backslash in the command_line sensor was because of the doublequotes at the beginning and the end.

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Yeah all good. I ended up putting it in a script and was able to take out the . When I ran the command from SSH it didn’t like it (invalid for cut) but it worked in HomeAssistant as it apparently strips out the \ according to @Tinkerer and @Syssi