Sorry for not responding with the clearest of answers.
Specifics:
The device that I am connecting to is a Generac Generator Evolution 2 Model 22KW. I have a Raspberry Pi connected to it running a program that interfaces with it to collect data and notify me when the generator is running etc.
The Github project that detailes the interface to the generator is
https://github.com/jgyates/genmon.
I have been searching thru the github issue pages for additional information.
This is all I have found so far.
If you enabled the Genmon MQTT option on the Add-Ons page "JSON for Numerics" it will return numeric values instead of strings for all numeric items on the Status page. You can also export the numeric data in JSON format with the command "generator: status_num_json". To issue the command you can either use the myclient.py python library or issue a socket call to port 9082, sending the text "generator: status_num_json" .
Not sure if that would help however.
The specific topic I am reading is this one :
https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/issues/223 among others. But not found an answer yet.