Change the binary and multistate numeric "value" to float type

[kushan-26]

The initial numeric value was sent as a string. Change it to a floating number

[ChristianTremblay]

Not sure it will solve the root cause of the issue you saw. At first, why does val.split(':')[0] returns 'active' ? for a binary... the format I want is 0:"inactive" and 1:"active"

Also, the number should be integer... not float.

[ChristianTremblay]

Change for int instead of float please and I will merge. It's better anyway, even if everything is not solved.

Thanks @kushan-26

[kushan-26]

It did fix the root cause of the issue I had. Anything received within double quotes is considered as a string in influxdb. The following statement sends the numeric value as a string.
_value = "{}".format(val.split(":")[0])

string value

numeric value (if you check a binary point for one of your devices, it should say string for numeric as well)

And I thought your intention is to split the 0:"inactive" and 1:"active" using val.split(":")[x] to have the string_value and numeric value separately?

I will change the float to int. Nonetheless, it doesn't really matter in influxdb because all numerics are considered as float type unless specifically defined as int using letter i at the end.
https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/reference/syntax/line-protocol/#float

[ChristianTremblay]

I should have been more explicit. You are right about influx but I remember a bug in BAC0 that I thought was fixed that created a bunch of history value with (for example) only "active" instead of "(1,"active")" ... I thought I saw that on your first pictures.

If you already have a bunch of data in influx with string type, look at my comment on the issue. You can convert the type in the request. Pretty cool.

Thanks for your help on that bug.

[kushan-26]

You're welcome and appreciate your time spent looking into this.