From 44b26f9b227ef9b24818ff43f78c658f971b68a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koen Kanters <koenkanters94@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:04:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Parse attribute payload to JSON if possible.
 https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters/pull/1427

---
 lib/extension/publish.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/extension/publish.js b/lib/extension/publish.js
index 39eb33d62..866f611df 100644
--- a/lib/extension/publish.js
+++ b/lib/extension/publish.js
@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ class EntityPublish extends Extension {
         // Convert the MQTT message to a Zigbee message.
         let json = {};
         if (topic.hasOwnProperty('attribute') && topic.attribute) {
-            json[topic.attribute] = message;
+            try {
+                json[topic.attribute] = JSON.parse(message);
+            } catch (e) {
+                json[topic.attribute] = message;
+            }
         } else {
             try {
                 json = JSON.parse(message);