MQTT handling diacritics #813

front/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/config.json

@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
   "enabled": true,
   "data_source": "script",
   "show_ui": true,
+  "data_filters": [
+    {
+      "compare_column": "Watched_Value4",
+      "compare_operator": "==",
+      "compare_field_id": "txtMacFilter",
+      "compare_js_template": "'{value}'.toString()",
+      "compare_use_quotes": true
+    }
+  ],
   "localized": ["display_name", "description", "icon"],
   "display_name": [
     {

front/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 import time
 import re
+import unicodedata
 import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
 # from paho.mqtt import client as mqtt_client
 # from paho.mqtt import CallbackAPIVersion as mqtt_CallbackAPIVersion
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 from plugin_utils import getPluginObject
 from plugin_helper import Plugin_Objects
 from logger import mylog, append_line_to_file
-from helper import timeNowTZ, get_setting_value, bytes_to_string, sanitize_string
+from helper import timeNowTZ, get_setting_value, bytes_to_string, sanitize_string, normalize_string
 from notification import Notification_obj
 from database import DB, get_device_stats
 from pytz import timezone
@@ -414,7 +415,8 @@ def mqtt_start(db):
 
             # Create devices in Home Assistant - send config messages
             deviceId        = 'mac_' + device["dev_MAC"].replace(" ", "").replace(":", "_").lower()
-            devDisplayName  = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]', '', device["dev_Name"]) 
+            # Normalize the string and remove unwanted characters
+            devDisplayName = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]', '', normalize_string(device["dev_Name"]))            
 
             sensorConfig = create_sensor(mqtt_client, deviceId, devDisplayName, 'sensor', 'last_ip', 'ip-network', device["dev_MAC"])
             sensorConfig = create_sensor(mqtt_client, deviceId, devDisplayName, 'sensor', 'mac_address', 'folder-key-network', device["dev_MAC"])

server/helper.py

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 import io
 import sys
 import datetime
-# from datetime import strptime 
 import os
 import re
+import unicodedata
 import subprocess
 import pytz
 from pytz import timezone
@@ -812,6 +812,14 @@ def sanitize_SQL_input(val):
         return ''  
     return val.replace("'", "_")
 
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Function to normalize the string and remove diacritics
+def normalize_string(text):
+    # Normalize the text to 'NFD' to separate base characters and diacritics
+    normalized_text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text)
+    # Filter out diacritics and unwanted characters
+    return ''.join(c for c in normalized_text if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn')
+
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 def generate_mac_links (html, deviceUrl):