I’m struggling to figure out how to read and store an unusual data type, which is a long list (512 or or more entries) which updates every 5 seconds or so. I was thinking of making a Template sensor to parse out the list over MQTT, but I see that the only data types supported are None , datetime.date , datetime.datetime , decimal.Decimal , float, int, string.
The data is coming from a Teensy computing the FFT of an accelerometer input. So all entries in the list really should be stored in the same object with the same timestamp in my opinion.
I suppose I could parse it out using a Template and have 512 sensors, but that doesn’t feel like a clean way to do this. Or perhaps there is a way to have a dictionary with 512 entries in the same sensor?
Ultimately I intend to graph this data in a histogram. I’m logging into InfluxDB, if that’s relevant.
What is the best way to consume and store this?