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A smach state is simply a Python class (see the example in this tutorial), so you can add a normal ROS subscriber to that class if you want.

This means, in the subscriber callback you can store the message data (a string in your case) as a class memeber, and in the execute callback you can make decisions about outcomes based on tis class member.

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