We have two outdoor temp sensors in our garden and would like a way to show the higher reading of the two on a dashboard, is this possible?
As the sun moves around our garden during the day I would like to know the "real" outdoor temperature so we know what to dress our little one in if we are off out in the sun...
I might be way off, since Iāve never even seen your garden . But Iām not sure it makes the most sense to consider the sensor thatās currently in a sunny area to be the ārealā outdoor temperature, for the purposes of planning how warmly to dress.
Have you considered weather forecast attributes such as āfeels likeā or āheat index?ā
Its more so we know how hot it really is in the sun. Obviously temp readings are in the shade and doing some tests the feels like it way lower than the reading the sensors give.
It's not just for knowing how to dress, more for my curiousity of how hot it is in the sun. Its a stupid request I know but something I'd like to do if possible
I think what I mean is, the temp sensor and a human will probably experience the āheatā in the sun differently, although yes the sensor will read higher and a human will feel hotter than in the shade.
But regardless, yes I think what youād want to do is create a rule in rule machine that triggers with temp changes on either sensor, store the higher temp in a variable, and display that variable value on a dashboard.
Thatās a 10,000 foot view of it at least, Iām certainly not the best at describing RM rule creation in great detail, but it should definitely be possible.
Not smarter, just more experienced with Rule Machine.
Edit: it helps if you test these things first.
Edit2: optimization: variable can be Local Variable because temp has to be exported through Virtual Temperature Sensor in order to display on Dashboard.
Obviously, because you now see how to pull the sensors into a Rule and assign their values to a Variable for manipulation, and then how to export the result to your Dashboard, you could modify the rule to, for example, average the values, etc.