# Process Data from Home-Assistant Entity in function to template
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645
**Category:** General
**Tags:** function-node, home-assistant
**Created:** [17 January 2024 11:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645 "2024-01-17T11:49:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Orcmast](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Orcmast)
#### Post date: [17 January 2024 11:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/1 "2024-01-17T11:49:41Z")
Hello,
i have an entity `sun.sun` (from Homeassistant) with attribute rising `data.attributes.next_rising` with payload `2024-01-18T07:26:56.471638+00:00` and want to process this raw data to `hh:mm` (with hh+1)
Like:
2024-01-18T **07:26** :56.471638+00:00 \> 08:26 (8 cause hh+1)
I have read many topics about processing messages but have no clue how to proceed. It seems like all messages between objects in nodered are passed (default) with JavaScript. Do i have to build a JavaScript function between entity and template? And how i can get the data from the function?
I have a working solution with raw-data in Mustache-Template:
```auto
{
"text": "{{data.attributes.next_rising}}",
}
```
Thank you in advice
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [17 January 2024 12:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/2 "2024-01-17T12:04:25Z")
> [@Orcmast](#):
>
> Do i have to build a JavaScript function between entity and template?
no
> [@Orcmast](#):
>
> i have an entity `sun.sun` (from Homeassistant) with attribute rising `data.attributes.next_rising` with payload `2024-01-18T07:26:56.471638+00:00` and want to process this raw data to `hh:mm` (with hh+1)
Use a change node and `$moment`
Demo flow _(use `CTRL+I` to import)_
```auto
[{"id":"0152ae8510f48dce","type":"inject","z":"dda2f44974393278","name":"fake entity data","props":[{"p":"payload.data.attributes.next_rising","v":"2024-01-18T07:26:56.471638+00:00","vt":"str"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","x":710,"y":480,"wires":[["d8cd9d547b2c2b31","fd06c7fdfcc5aac4"]]},{"id":"d8cd9d547b2c2b31","type":"change","z":"dda2f44974393278","name":"","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"$moment(payload.data.attributes.next_rising).format(\"HH:mm\")","tot":"jsonata"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":910,"y":480,"wires":[["3ec93364c36afcc8"]]},{"id":"3ec93364c36afcc8","type":"debug","z":"dda2f44974393278","name":"debug 3","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":960,"y":540,"wires":[]},{"id":"fd06c7fdfcc5aac4","type":"debug","z":"dda2f44974393278","name":"debug 4","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":true,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"payload.data.attributes.next_rising","statusType":"msg","x":900,"y":420,"wires":[]}]
```
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### Author:  [@Orcmast](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Orcmast)
#### Post date: [17 January 2024 14:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/3 "2024-01-17T14:15:19Z")
Thank you, this is working really fine! 🙂
Just had to change
`$moment(payload.data.attributes.next_rising).format("HH:mm")` to `$moment(data.attributes.next_rising).format("HH:mm")`
Just found documentation here as well: [node-red-contrib-moment (node) - Node-RED](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-moment) Its described there.
Another question:
Which JS library can i use for the following things:
%-value example:` 10,00%` to `10%` and
cutting after a few characters example:
`Whatever-text-here` to `Whatever` ?
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [17 January 2024 14:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/4 "2024-01-17T14:35:43Z")
> [@Orcmast](#):
>
> %-value example:` 10,00%` to `10%`
Show us the source data
_(for example, if it is already a number, then string processing may be unnecessary)_
also, explain what you wish to do with the data.
_(For example, if it is to be displayed on a dashboard, the answer might be different)_
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### Author:  [@craigcurtin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/craigcurtin)
#### Post date: [18 January 2024 04:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/5 "2024-01-18T04:49:56Z")
Steve-Mcl has you covered on this - but if it does need changing then look at the change node and jsonata within it to reformat
Craig
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### Author:  [@Orcmast](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Orcmast)
#### Post date: [18 January 2024 16:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/6 "2024-01-18T16:35:06Z")
Mhh Home-Assistant gave me (for exampl)e for Speedtest the following entity-value: "100.10 Mbit/s" but i can see that NodeRed is only recognizing the 100.10. Same with my mouse-entity. From Homeassistant its for example 30.00% but in Nodered 30. Nothing to fix so 😃
Thank you guys
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [18 January 2024 16:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/7 "2024-01-18T16:59:21Z")
Attach a debug mode showing what is coming from ha and paste a screen shot of the debug output here.
Or do you mean all is well?
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### Author:  [@Orcmast](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Orcmast)
#### Post date: [18 January 2024 17:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/8 "2024-01-18T17:48:40Z")
Yes all is well. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1 February 2024 17:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/process-data-from-home-assistant-entity-in-function-to-template/84645/9 "2024-02-01T17:48:50Z")
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