Mqtt sensor not compatible? about list-card

[DarkFox]

The card reads the entity's attributes as a dict and treats each key/value pair as an item. If you've got your items as a list of dicts, you can't set it directly on the entity attributes, and the card doesn't allow defining an attribute which contains the list of items.

Additionally, there's no way of using templates to convert lists to dicts, but since you're using node-red, you might have more options there.

[DarkFox]

Just for the record, in case someone with the same issue stumbles over this thread, here's how I solved it: https://github.com/DarkFox/ha-config/blob/687791a/packages/integrations/weather.yaml#L123-L128

xkcd.com/979

[iantrich]

@DarkFox has the right idea. Going to close this as not really an issue. Feel free to submit a PR for extended use cases

[PlayedIn]

Just for the record, in case someone with the same issue stumbles over this thread, here's how I solved it: https://github.com/DarkFox/ha-config/blob/687791a/packages/integrations/weather.yaml#L123-L128

Please forgive my ignorance, but can you elaborate a little as I'm not sure I understand. You solved the issue that I was having by replacing ' with " in the string that you published to an mqtt sensor?

[DarkFox]

It's because HA's string conversion outputs it with single quotes, which isn't valid JSON, so it won't get parsed by the mqtt sensor.