Group Friendly Names With Spaces Not Parsed When Defining Rooms In Config

[danieledwardgeorgehitchcock]

Picking up on a thread originally raised in the Discord board, Bifrost does not seem to be able to parse group friendly names which have spaces in them.

I am following the article here for defining rooms in config.yaml here is my config file:

bifrost:
  cert_file: certs/cert.pem

bridge:
  name: Bifrost
  mac: 02:42:ac:15:00:04
  ipaddress: 172.21.0.4
  netmask: 255.255.255.0
  gateway: 172.21.0.1
  timezone: Europe/London

z2m:
  zigbee2mqtt:
    url: ws://zigbee2mqtt:8099/api?token=SUPERSECRETTOKEN

rooms:
  living_room_lights:
    name: Living Room
    icon: living_room
  Office Lights:
    name: Office
    icon: office
  Porch Lights:
    name: Porch
    icon: front_door
  "Master Bedroom Lights":
    name: "Master Bedroom"
    icon: bedroom
  'Dining Room Lights':
    name: 'Dining Room'
    icon: dining
  Patio Lights:
    name: Patio
    icon: terrace
  Garden Lights:
    name: Garden
    icon: garden
  Orangery Lights:
    name: Orangery
    icon: man_cave
  Landing Lights:
    name: Landing
    icon: staircase

Here is an excerpt from the Zigbee2MQTT states.json file:

        "groups": {
            "1": {
                "friendly_name": "living_room_lights"
            },
            "2": {
                "friendly_name": "Office Lights"
            },
            "3": {
                "friendly_name": "Porch Lights"
            },
            "4": {
                "friendly_name": "Master Bedroom Lights"
            },
            "5": {
                "friendly_name": "Dining Room Lights"
            },
            "6": {
                "friendly_name": "Patio Lights"
            },
            "7": {
                "friendly_name": "Garden Lights"
            },
            "8": {
                "friendly_name": "Orangery Lights"
            },
            "9": {
                "friendly_name": "Landing Lights"
            }
        },

Here is an excerpt from the Bifrost log:

2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/7d80a811-a16d-5872-883e-03684e5d8753 (Landing Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/b81a3eb8-ffdc-5197-b1b6-6c79a76ab446 (Orangery Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/73a10b25-8003-5491-b56c-9f506bcf5414 (Garden Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/9235bdfb-a79f-570d-947e-be4e090d69d8 (Patio Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/9637a1c9-0be0-5b07-8129-0fb420e30acb (Dining Room Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/7dd91229-3b60-542e-aba3-8e5fe786bd28 (Master Bedroom Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/9fdd781c-a38a-5500-929d-5160bec8fc1e (Porch Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/94036978-bc1e-5e2c-b3f9-a0fd7a58f1d4 (Office Lights) known, updating..
 2025-02-09T21:21:30.706Z INFO  bifrost::z2m                              > [zigbee2mqtt] room/f076c21a-b417-5f0b-ab6a-87cc9e2c5075 (living_room_lights) known, updating..

Out of the above config, the only Zigbee2MQTT group which is correctly parsed by Bifrost into a room is living_room_lights.

I have tried completely removing and rebuilding Bifrost (Docker), removing all cache and user data from the Hue app, and everything in-between.

[chrivers]

Hi @danieledwardgeorgehitchcock

Thanks for reporting this. As we talked about, this is definitely a bug in Bifrost, somehow.

Good, detailed description 👍 We'll keep this open until I get around to it :)

[danieledwardgeorgehitchcock]

@chrivers - This seems to have been fixed (not sure if on purpose) in a recent release of Bifrost (not sure which one)

Will leave open for now so we can close with reference back to a PR / Commit...

Thanks :-)