to display the text or read it through TTS (this is my case), you would need more than 255 character. The current limitation breaks the use case.
So request:
for scrape sensor at least (as its purpose is web scraping), please change the limit from 255characters to double size (510 characters). This is sufficient at least for weather texts without extra warnings. If possible, it would be great, if the sensor can be simply extended so that the user can set the max limit where a potentially scraped text gets cut.
Thanks
P.s: In my case, HA ready weather news after I am getting up and enter the kitchen to prepare breakfast…
@Hellis81 - this sounds suitable to me. But it seems, I need to adapt the scrape sensor component… Unfortunately I dont have too much knowledge about this. Or is there another way towards achieving this?
Also I dont know if changes in the sensor can be detected without state changes… I can work around the latter by simply scraping another smaller tag…
Thanks a lot for your efforts, if this is the only way, will try… afaik the API provides all data, but not the text form and I dont want to create grammatically correct forecasts with own code.
Anyway again thanks a lot for your effort!!! I will share my insights.
I saw there was something on GitHub also perhaps that is what you need?
I agree with the request but I assume there is a reason why it’s limited to 255 characters.
If you have website of your own then you can use that to scrape and parse the data, the pass it as json to HA