How to skip 0 values on incoming MCTT channel messages?

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openHAB 5.1.4
indexdb
eclipse-mosquitto configured as MQTT Broker in openHab

Then there is a zendure solarflow 800 configured to send to the above mqtt server OH reads the messages from there.

There is a small issue with zero (or NULL?) values getting read between the actual data messages.

The client is sending (observed via MQTT Explorer)

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One message every 66 seconds.

OH reads a zero few seconds after each actual measurement, like

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Looking at the actual data in database there are even more “in-between” values

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But OTOH, there are mqtt channels from the zendure device where values change only after some minutes and there I do not get those zeros.

Is MQTT Explorer not showing the real data on the channel? Is OpenHab pulling data out of thin air? What is going on here?

How could I get rid of those zeroes?

Thanks for any ideas

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What is your persistence config? Which database?

What states do you see the Item going through? You can see the Item state changes in events.log.

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thanks!

The event log was showing that there was another source reporting on the same item. A left over from previous setup which has the zero value. Removed that.