How to display data on a tile

[darryl.kegg]

I've searched a bit but can only find things about displaying webpages, weather data etc.. changing tile colors, and that's not quite fitting my needs.

How do I create a tile on the dashboard to display a number of variables?

I'm trying to implement part of the below, but I don't care about graphing, I just want to be able to keep a count of the number of times in a day the sump runs and the last run time it ran. Wondering how I create a tile that I can use to just display number of cycles (a variable I'll reset daily), the last run time (another variable I'll update when RM triggers) and maybe the number of run times for the month or some other variable... Not seeing anything explaining this. I know that some of the devices have an "attributes" option, but not sure how to do this with variables. Do I need to create a virtual device?

How use a zooz zen15 and not too many reports?

This sounded familiar. Then I remembered we had discussed in DM. Might be good to post here so others won't need to repeat what we've already talked about. Sure. First of all, you need to make sure any energy reporting device doesn't get too chatty. If you are getting energy reports every minute, that's an unnecessary drain on the hub. So I'm showing here the key setting of Power Report Value Change of 100 watts. My pump draws about about 800 watts, so all I need to know is when a major draw be…

[mark.cockcroft]

If you use RM, you could put it as global variable, you can actual then reset it to 0 via the dashboard

[darryl.kegg]

Right, I plan to do global variables, but how do I actually create a tile to display my various global variables all in 1 tile?

[mark.cockcroft]

You can't get them all on one tile nativity, but you could put a tile for each var

[thebearmay]

Natively you'd have to use an intermediary rule or other mechanism to create a formatted string and store it in its own global variable and use the connector to display it on a tile (attribute or variable template). There are also a couple of tile apps that can help you do this, for example:

[RELEASE] Tile Master - Display multiple devices that can be Controlled from the tile!

*** BPTWorld apps are no longer being developed or maintained. Thanks *** Introducing 'Tile Master' Display multiple devices that can be Controlled from the tile! Features: Each Tile can have up to 9 lines (remember, we are still limited to 1024 characters) Ability to copy one line to another for faster setup Each line features up to 3 sections Choose width of each section per line Display a different device in each section Devices can be CONTROLLED from within the tile. Game changer! Each …

[darryl.kegg]

@thebearmay

use the connector to display it on a tile (attribute or variable template)

Thanks! but not sure what you mean by "use the connector" ... I can def do a formatted string, but are you saying to create a virtual device?

[thebearmay]

When you create a global variable, you have the option of creating a connector which is basically a special virtual device that acts as a transport for the variable.

[darryl.kegg]

got it, thanks!