Recorder wildcard * vs ? | Home Assistant | Page 1

gritty sphinx Mar 5, 2025, 8:38 PM

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Hi there 👋 I suspect I found a bug, OR I got it wrong and I'm confused.
The recorder supports wildcards in entity_globs:, namely * and ?. I had my setup working as you can see below, and then the other day I decided to exchange * for ? for the fun of it (because I only wanted to match at most two characters anyway, but thats besides the point). The point being, since then, after I restarted, HA has recorded an entity calledsensor.cora_wifi_signal which it did NOT do before.
Now, did I make a mistake, did I misunderstand, or is this a bug? I'm unsure whether I'm supposed to open an issue on this.

rocky matrix Mar 5, 2025, 8:42 PM

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I think a core bug would be appropriate.

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Never used the ? but looking at the doc it seems to agree with your theory

last kite Mar 5, 2025, 8:42 PM

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Seems like a bug based on the docs

rocky matrix Mar 5, 2025, 8:48 PM

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I'm guessing ? is being interpreted as matching exactly 1 character, not zero or one.

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It's mapping to SQL wildcard _ which is 1 character.

#Recorder wildcard * vs ?