MQTT: sensor.picframe_image_date missing?

[clintiepoo]

I set up MQTT and home assistant. Everything works ok, but I'm not seeing the picframe_image_date sensor. Is this a bug, or how can I enable this sensor?

[helgeerbe]

I guess you forgot to edit your configuration.yaml file https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/wiki/Homeassistant#configurationyaml

[clintiepoo]

hi - I edited the config. Everything else works, just not the date sensor.

[helgeerbe]

have you restarted home_assistant?

[clintiepoo]

I did just now. Still this sensor isn’t showing up.

[clintiepoo]

Since this is MQTT, should I look in MQTT explorer for a certain entry? Just trying to track this down.

[helgeerbe]

Please check in developers tool for the entity id sensor.picframe_image. Does it has an attribute Exif DateTimeOriginal?

This number is an linux timestamp.

In configuration.yaml you create a template sensor which creates a human readable time format.

In developer tools->template you can copy this in the template editor: {{ state_attr('sensor.picframe_image', 'EXIF DateTimeOriginal') | int | timestamp_custom('%d. %b. %Y %H:%M') }}

Does it show the correct time?

[clintiepoo]

That works - I'll just have to make a sensor for this in the config.

[clintiepoo]

Here's what I did:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      picframe_image_date:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.picframe_image', 'EXIF DateTimeOriginal') | int | timestamp_custom('%b %d, %Y') }}"
        friendly_name: "Image Date"