Last notification sensor not saving in HA due to emojis

Home Assistant Android version: 3.0.2-full

Android version: 10

Phone model: Moto One Vision

Home Assistant version: 0.118.0

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):

Description of problem: I just received a push notification from a sudoku game and it seems like emojis in the notification message are added to the state which is not supported by the HA database schema.

Traceback (if applicable):

Error in database connectivity during commit: (MySQLdb._exceptions.OperationalError) 
(1366, "Incorrect string value: '\\xF0\\x9F\\x8E\\x89' for column `hassio`.`states`.`state` at row 1") 
[SQL: INSERT INTO states (domain, entity_id, state, attributes, event_id, last_changed, last_updated, created, old_state_id) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)] 
[parameters: ('sensor', 'sensor.visionist_last_notification', 'Be the first one in the world to solve today’s new puzzle🎉', '{"android.appInfo": "ApplicationInfo{de8a77b sudoku.puzzle.free.game.brain}", "android.infoText": "null", "android.largeIcon": "Icon(typ=BITMAP size= ... (627 characters truncated) ... ficationCompat$BigPictureStyle", "package": "sudoku.puzzle.free.game.brain", "friendly_name": "visionist Last Notification", "icon": "mdi:bell-ring"}', 218697670, datetime.datetime(2020, 11, 19, 3, 22, 11, 674862, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), datetime.datetime(2020, 11, 19, 3, 22, 11, 674862, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), datetime.datetime(2020, 11, 19, 3, 22, 11, 674862, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 208339691)] 
(Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/13/e3q8). (retrying in 3 seconds)

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Additional information:

[jesserockz]

Thanks, I have been way too busy to try this out over the past few weeks. I ended up disabling the sensor but will give it another shot when I get a chance.

[dshokouhi]

The recorder docs have now been updated and a new fix will be in the next HA core release. Going to close this now. You may need to recreate the DB for the fix to get applied on existing installs:

https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/427516175237382144/785627526512508958

If you still have an issue after updating the recorder statement and HA core then we can revisit although it may ultimately be a core issue.

This may also help: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/44037#issuecomment-740216825