Standardize presentation of temperature and humidity

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#1

Hi!

I would like to present information standardly, independent of the device/brand.

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The image is a small example of the temperature display. Some show no decimal place, others with one, two, and even a thermostat that shows four places.

The same happens with the temperature symbol. It does not appear, or only the "c" appears, others the degree and c "⁰c".

Similar situation with humidity, some have no information at all, others show the "%" symbol, others "%rs".

Is there any way to create a standard presentation?

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#2

G'day Wilson, it feels like this should be possible, let me see what I find.... Not in the next 9-10 hours :wink: But I'm sure there is something we can come up with, including others here in the Community....

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#3

The issue is in how the attribute unit is stored by the driver…

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#4

Yes, that is true. It may require a driver, or, ideally some "words" with the developer of drivers who have developed drivers that do not honour the scale used on the hub.

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#5

I thought there might be something in the templates, like number formatting. The same way you format colors, icons, maybe something like number formatting. Well you are the experts.

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#6

We'll see what we can come up with :wink:

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#7

Could a virtual device be used where the decimal place can be adjusted. I sware I've seen that option on a temp/humidity sensor driver before. I think it may have been the guy that wrote all those Sonoff drivers but got banned or something. It's still in HPM.

#8

You can't do it using CSS alone.

Here is a workaround Generic Zigbee Motion Sensor F Temp 2 Decimal places - #7 by aaiyar?

Guess you could but it's probably quite cumbersome as you'll need to use a rule to pull the temp into the virtual device, no?

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#9

This is the guy who setup the CSS thread.... so I think we will need to look at a virtual device :wink:

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#10

Lol I actually just googled it :wink:

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#11

Hopefully Google returned the same trusted source we all rely upon... :slight_smile:

TBH - Makes sense to need another device, the more I think about it... would be nice to find a CSS / Javascript option, but expect it will be a virtual device...

#12

I think the temp averaging device is actually a clever solution!

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#13

If it give you what you need, sounds like a good option to me.

#14

All credit to @aaiyar ! OP just wanted a standardised presentation, didn't seem fussed as to how many decimal places :grinning:

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#15

The documentation is vague...

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 10.50.42 AM

"NUMBER" whatever that means. Could be Integer, could be Float, could be Double, default Groovy is BigDecimal. For the Honeywell Thermostat I use, the driver uses the default of BigDecimal and I note that it gets displayed as "74.000" on my Device Info page.

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 10.56.38 AM

When that gets displayed on a dashboard, it depends on which tile. An Attribute only tile displays the full value, while a Thermostat tile displays both a single decimal in the center and the full value at the top:

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 10.56.51 AM

Modifying the driver to round to two decimal places results in:

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 10.57.03 AM

And then displayed as:

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 10.57.16 AM

I don't believe 4 decimal places has any worthwhile value in a display, and I've added the round down to my development code.

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#16

That reminds me I need to fix the Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion in my thermostat driver....

#17

Thanks to all for the contributions.

I tested and worked on the whole discussion of creating virtual devices/variables to make a bridge conversation, but I think a bad way. In my case, I have 18 sensors; I would have to add devices or variables and then build rules that make no sense to me this pollution.

The last comment about changing the drive seems like a good way to go, but I think that only drives are added to the codes; how to do it with HE native driver? Where would the change be made? Another detail is, would it be possible to determine the symbol, for example, "⁰c" or "⁰f"?

@sburke781 and other CSS magic, I keep thinking that there should be a way to identify the info in the html and then convert the information to the tile.

Thanks.

#18

Taking this opportunity to thank to @csteele the developer of the Honeywell drive, who I think saw this discussion and have now posted a version getting the decimals right info, THANK YOU!

steele: v1.3.23 preset supportedThermostatFanModes & supportedThermostatModes used by Thermostat Controller app.

  • round curTemp to 2 places.
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#19

unit: "°${location.temperatureScale}"

The above is one piece of a sendEvent:

sendEvent(name: 'temperature', value: curTemp.round(2), state: n, unit:"°${location.temperatureScale}")

Together, it sets the degree symbol and either C or F based on what's selected in Settings: Hub Details:

Screen Shot 2022-08-20 at 4.14.07 PM

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