Hi guys

 

For those don't check daily, go have a look.

@plonkster, tell your colleagues this clients like the new smaller card layout. ... Now Trying to get my Home Assistant Dashboard to look similar. 

 

a suggestion, ye ye I always make them  ... I would like to be able though to say which cards go onto a row where I allow one card per row, or 2 cards per row or 3... some of the cards having a full row to show 24/48hour or 7 days give me nice detail. some cards I just want to see so having 3 in a horizontal stack is fine.

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Edited June 5, 20197 yr by georgelza

I saw a post on FB HA page about a guy that did a nice integration into his HA with pylontech batteries and inverter as well.

 

This is my basic one.

 

like... biggest thing is to know exactly which topics he's using, and thats what most guys are not sharing.

there are so many topics with similar information... i have what I have atm, but not 100% happy/confirmed its the right topics for what i want to display.

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26 minutes ago, georgelza said:

like... biggest thing is to know exactly which topics he's using, and thats what most guys are not sharing.

What I do as a lazy developer as I run mosquitto_sub (with the -v option so it dumps the topic as well) and redirect that into a text file, then I send a keepalive so the entire blob of data comes down. Wait about a minute or so. Then, because I am an old unix hand and I know vim (the editor, not the cleaning product) like the back of my hand (I am pretty sure there are some features in it I still haven't discovered, even after 22 years), I very quickly slice off the payload, sort the topics (!sort) and chuck it through "!uniq", and voila, a list of all the topics on that system.

Then cross reference with the modbus-tcp spreadsheet (which includes the dbus path, which in turn is the same as the tail-end of the topic). If there is a /system/ path that has the value, use that one. Then your solution is not dependent on the DeviceInstance of the particular device (which is static for your installation, but might be different on another installation).

3 hours ago, georgelza said:

I would like to be able though to say which cards go onto a row where I allow one card per row, or 2 cards per row or 3... some of the cards having a full row to show 24/48hour or 7 days give me nice detail.

I see a small triangle bottom right, and you can drag that... I only just noticed it. Maybe that is what you are looking for?

well spotted.yebo... and guess what you can also drag the cards around

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1 hour ago, plonkster said:

there are some features in it I still haven't discovered, even after 22 years

Have you figured out how to close it yet?

hehehe also a unix hand, but clearly not as old... make that as skilled.

will see how i get this done. would be nice if the topics was also in the modes-tcp spreadsheet with a description/explanation.

thanks

G

10 minutes ago, PJJ said:

Have you figured out how to close it yet?

Why do you think I've been using it for that long? Can't figure out how to quit out of the darn thing!

(Seriously, I occasionally get Whatsapps from my wife containing just the text :wq. Wrong window focussed... always cracks me up).

9 minutes ago, georgelza said:

hehehe also a unix hand, but clearly not as old... make that as skilled.

In my defence, I started really young. No internet connection back in the day, all new software had to be carried in on floppy disk. Emacs was 30Mb, Vim was just 5 🙂

 

1 minute ago, plonkster said:

Emacs

Now that was an awesome operating system. If only it had a decent editor.

(ba dum tish... I'm out of editor jokes).

Heheh

what about yellow screen qedit.

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13 minutes ago, georgelza said:

what about yellow screen qedit.

Don't recall that one. Since DOS version 4.something there was a qbasic editor, and it had an edit.com wrapper, maybe that's what you are referring to? As a kid I actually used edlin (yes, seriously) for a short while. Then I learned there is a whole other exciting world outside of Microsoft.

... used edit the days I started with Clipper, summer 86 distro... do remember edlin.

dos 3.0, network 2.1

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You guys are bringing code up that I only vaguely remember. 

I have limited Unix experience and lots of windows. I prefer windows as it is easy to navigate and get started with something that does not have any docs.

For Unix and the RPi it is extremely difficult for me to do something without following some step by step guide on the internet or a 30min google session just to open and CLOSE the text editor.

Windows, navigation is easy and I can just click and navigate until I find something that works.

 

4 hours ago, Luminous said:

I have limited Unix experience and lots of windows. I prefer windows as it is easy to navigate and get started with something that does not have any docs.

I actually did a real life experiment with this. Somewhat by accident too. I gave my parents Linux computers around 15 years ago. They have the reverse problem you have, they get completely lost on a Windows machine.

Granted, this is a bit apples and oranges. Can't really compare your struggles on the command line on a small platform with actually using it as an OS on a desktop/laptop.

Thanks for the heads-up! The new VRM is a big improvement 🙂

9 hours ago, georgelza said:

I would like to be able though to say which cards go onto a row where I allow one card per row, or 2 cards per row or 3... some of the cards having a full row to show 24/48hour or 7 days give me nice detail. some cards I just want to see so having 3 in a horizontal stack is fine.

I did some experimenting and this is possible on the new VRM - you just drag the "cards" where you want them. You can also re-size each card (drag the triangle in the bottom-right corner) to be multiples of the small card width.

Hi Nigel, agree, as Plonkster informed me, and I then tried.

Have found, it does not persist across sessions though, you experiencing otherwise ?

I now have to reduce Safari width, it then drops the left nav bar and then reverts to my layout design, if I then increase width again it goes back to old layout, one graph per line.

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