if you have it, just split it on the /

[sour echo]

base mqtt topic would 'frigate/#' ... the subtopic I would be interested in is the camera triggering the mqtt stream, ex. 'frigate/camera1/[...]'

trying to figure out the syntax of the payload before I just start whackin at the keyboard

[fossil kelp]

yes but what are you trying to do

I need more details other than "I have htis topic"

if it's just "I have this topic" then you literally just use .split('/')[1]

[sour echo]

creating an automation that is triggered via mqtt, but I need to isolate the camera generating the mqtt string

[fossil kelp]

ok, then it would be {{ trigger.topic.split('/')[1] }}

[sour echo]

ahh ok -- not the payload_json

that's what I was hoping

thanks again petro

I'm sure this is wrong; but that would hopefully return true/false, yes?

value_template: ('input_boolean.frigate_' ~ {{ trigger.topic.split('/')[1] }} ~ '_override') == "on"

i'd need a states() in there

[fossil kelp]

you wrap the whole thing in {{ }} not just the trigger part.

[sour echo]

it'd still see the trigger, though right

[fossil kelp]

I don't follow

[sour echo]

with the trigger.topic.split('/)[1] ... the whole of the template would still pull out that value from the mqtt string

[fossil kelp]

yes

but I"m assuming you want to get the state? if yes, you need to use is_state()

[sour echo]

of that input boolean, yea. so i should use is state

ok

i gotcha

i just wasnt sure if you could nest the trigger peice into the template value

[fossil kelp]

you can't nest {{ }} in eachother, but you don't need to. The whole line is a template

[sour echo]

so,
value_template: {{ is_state('input_boolean.frigate_' ~ {{ trigger.topic.split('/')[1] }} ~ '_enabled') == "on" }} would work, then

[fossil kelp]

no, you're using is_state wrong. it's is_state('entity', 'state')

also, you need to wrap the whole template in quotes

also, your outside quotes need to be opposite your inside quotes

[sour echo]

or would i take out the 2nd set of curly brackets

ahh yea

[fossil kelp]

use the template editor to test

but you're nesting {{ }} inside {{ }}, which you don't need to do

[sour echo]

right

sorry .. work meeting;
gonna go with {{ is_state('input_boolean.frigate' ~ trigger.topic.split('/')[1] ~ '_enabled', 'on') }} ... as always (thanks) petro

I swear, if I could do like LinkedIn and endorse you for all the times you've helped me understand things ... sheesh you'd be gold

[fossil kelp]

Heh, I am on linked in

[sour echo]

can i use the same idea here with a time condition?

[fossil kelp]

What do you mean time condition

[sour echo]

eg. after: "{{states('input_datetime.frigate_'~trigger.topic.split('/')[1]~'_time_on').state}}"

or would it barf

[fossil kelp]

it will barf because conditions don't accept templates

[sour echo]

yeah figured

[fossil kelp]

you can make a template condition

but you have to template the whole check

[sour echo]

how do you mean, ... like {{ xxx and yyy }} ??

[fossil kelp]

like now between time a and b

[sour echo]

ah

(googles)

[fossil kelp]

post what you want the condition to be

[sour echo]

i have 2 date_times, on and off

1 is set to 0630, the other lets say 2100

the automation i am rewriting (for myself) is this:

 - if:
     condition:
       - condition: time
         after: input_datetime.frigate_lighting_time_on
         before: input_datetime.frigate_lighting_time_off
    then:

[fossil kelp]

condition: template
value_template: >
  {% set start = states('input_datetime.frigate_'~trigger.topic.split('/')[1]~'_time_on') | as_datetime | as_local %}
  {% set end = states('input_datetime.frigate_'~trigger.topic.split('/')[1]~'_time_off') | as_datetime | as_local %}
  {{ start <= now() <= end }}

[sour echo]

can you explain the return to me? -- start is lessthan equalto now() lessthan equalto end?

no 'and' operator?

is that a jinja thing?

[fossil kelp]

yep, that's how it reads

the and is implied

[sour echo]

ahh

[fossil kelp]

this is a python thing

[sour echo]

ohhh

ok

thats my vb logic showing

lol

so in writing for example, it would be the equivilent of 'start is lessthan equalto now() [and now()] lessthan equalto end'

[fossil kelp]

yep

[sour echo]

gotcha

well thats different

but cool

learnin new stuff this time