Alert expressions break when source returns number
Alert expression breaks when a data source returns a bare number instead of an object with named fields.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 9 September 2026 · last reported 12 September 2026
What's going wrong
A smart-home user built an alert that computes elapsed time from a field in a JSON response.
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