How to send .json strings over MQTT

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Hi All,

I have been following this tutorial Link but i cannot get it to work when i replicate it on my machine.
I have tried recreating from scratch and also downloaded the flow itself and reconfigured to my MQTT broker but still without joy.

I want to send this via MQTT
{“analyze”:false, “value”:10}

When i debug from the json node i get this error "Unexpected token “ in JSON at position 1"

When i try to add the switch to the json node and set to msg.payload.analyze to test for True/False i do not get an output from either of them.

I noticed my debug is showing the payload as a string rather than an object, The payload is showed as an object in the lecture article i linked in the debug window. Is this because my message is formatted incorrectly?

Any help is appreciated.

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It is literally telling you it doesn't like that non STD quote mark

Replace those smartquotes with normal quotes from your keyboard.

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My mistake, i copied the string from the lecture directly and did not spot that the double quotes were different to usual...

What's the idea behind these being different? " “...

Wasted a few hours working out where id gone wrong on this as well. Cheers for your help.

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