From b00dc521c9029bc4d1565bd0f54c485f7325b988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rudolfkoenig <>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 11:44:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm: document empty perl return (Forum
 #116458)

git-svn-id: https://svn.fhem.de/fhem/trunk@23294 2b470e98-0d58-463d-a4d8-8e2adae1ed80
---
 fhem/FHEM/10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fhem/FHEM/10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm b/fhem/FHEM/10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm
index a4bf28e60..d9ce44acf 100644
--- a/fhem/FHEM/10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm
+++ b/fhem/FHEM/10_MQTT2_DEVICE.pm
@@ -1057,12 +1057,13 @@ zigbee2mqtt_devStateIcon255($;$$)
       Notes:
       <ul>
         <li>arguments to the set command will be appended to the message
-          published (not for the perl expression)</li>
+          published (this is not valid not for the perl expression)</li>
         <li>the command arguments are available as $EVENT, $EVTPART0, etc., 
           the name of the device as $NAME, both in the perl expression and the
           "normal" topic variant.</li>
         <li>the perl expression must return a string containing the topic and
-          the message separated by a space.</li>
+          the message separated by a space. If it returns "", undef or 0, no
+          MQTT message will be sent.</li>
         <li>SetExtensions is activated</li>
         <li>if the topic name ends with :r, then the retain flag is set</li>
       </ul>