MQTT Telegraf to decode before insertion

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This may not be an exact solution , but it sounds pretty close.

Take a look at this comment, and the reply to it

Telegraf config - getting substrings and converting hexadecimal to int

Processors work on all plugins unless you specify a tag or metric name to pass into them. They also run after an input plugin is run, so passing them the gjson syntax is not something they will recognize. If I run only your one input I get a single metric: a,dmac=BC57290123B5,gmac=94A408B02508,host=ryzen rssi=-44,data1="0201060DFF530ABC57290123B51A5A0C63" 1666101895000000000 I believe your next step is to parse data1 to get chars 13-14 and 15-16 and then convert them from hexadecimal to integ…