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OVERVIEW

This script allows you to export your current entity states/attributes into a file!

• original idea is to use the extracted data for later reference, e.g. compare forecast of yesterday with actual of today
• extracted file contains lines related to 'notify', see below and needs to be cleaned before import into sensor

EXAMPLE JSON

{
    "entity": ["weather.home"],
    "attributes": ["forecast"],
    "save_file": true
}

or as a service

service: python_script.extract_entity
data:
  entity: weather.forecast_home
  attributes:
    - forecast
  save_file: true

FILE SAVING

The script can save directly to a file in the HASS configuration directory, simply add a file notification declaration exactly as below. The file name is referenced by the script, so do not change the script name. You may change the filename to whatever you wish, however.

notify:
  - name: json_file_generator
    platform: file
    filename: generated_extract.json
    timestamp: false 

Read file back in HA Remove first two lines from "generated_extract.json", they contain data generated by the Notification process: 'Assistant' and '---'

grep -vE "Assistant|----" generated_json.yaml

Example import

sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: forecast_home
    scan_interval: 30000
    command: >
          echo "$( grep -vE "Assistant|----" generated_extract.json | jq '.' ) " 
    value_template: "OK"
    json_attributes:
        - forecast