From 32b76edb7c2a8325d7cef6fdf3d49052508a57c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Brett <andreasbrett@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:29:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve non-JSON output (#1462)

* Update controller.js

Do not use JSON.stringify when outputting Non-JSON to MQTT. When using JSON.stringify strings are quoted in the MQTT messages but they should not be quoted (MQTT is different from JSON).

* Update controller.js

* Update controller.js

* Update controller.js
---
 lib/controller.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/controller.js b/lib/controller.js
index 65eee2d2d..27ceddc5c 100644
--- a/lib/controller.js
+++ b/lib/controller.js
@@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ class Controller {
                 if (typeof messagePayload[key] == 'object') {
                     Object.keys(messagePayload[key]).forEach((subKey) => {
                         this.mqtt.publish(`${entity.friendlyName}/${key}-${subKey}`,
-                            JSON.stringify(messagePayload[key][subKey]), options);
+                            `${messagePayload[key][subKey]}`, options);
                     });
                 } else {
-                    this.mqtt.publish(`${entity.friendlyName}/${key}`, JSON.stringify(messagePayload[key]), options);
+                    this.mqtt.publish(`${entity.friendlyName}/${key}`, `${messagePayload[key]}`, options);
                 }
             });
         }