Ampersand in device name causing Tuya device not to be selectable

You’re quite welcome @pebneter - let me know if I can be of assistance in replicating it, in case you can’t. Happy to send over a screen recording or whatever would be useful. I can definitely imagine that for a sensor like this, a lot of people might use an ampersand in the name.

My Tuya temp sensor is now integrated and working in Apilio. It’s simplified my setup a lot - before I had Switchbot send temp threshold triggers to IFTTT, and then IFTTT set an Apilio variable with a representation of how hot it was (comfortable, uncomfortable, too hot, etc), with logic blocks based on that variable. Quite a lot of stuff to go wrong, especially if a threshold was missed. I’m amazed it worked as well as it did.

One thing, which is fairly inconsequential really but I will mention it, is that this particular sensor (a “Gaoducash” brand) apparently reports the temperature as 10x the actual temp. So when it’s 25.9 deg C, it reports it as 259, so Apilio says that it’s 259 deg C in my living room (it does feel like that some days). Obviously it’s easy to get around, you just multiply your comparators by 10 as well. I have no idea how widespread that is, but perhaps the upcoming mathematical operator feature could be applied to device values as well. That would also allow the temps to be converted to deg F (or Kelvin I suppose).

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