@sjenkins I use House Panel to create a Magic Mirror type display and I would like to pull some values from Home Assistant to Eisy to put on my display. The values I'm looking for would be KWH and KW. I use the old list way of setting up the plugin and maybe with the JSON string this would already be possible I just don't know how to use it. So basically I'm looking for a temperature type node that I can pull the value from a variable and have it display as power KW or KWH.

Thank you!

Well I guess this ended up not working so don't worry about it. One of the temperature nodes would work since it just displays as a number value in House Panel and I can add text before or after the values but unfortunately House Panel does not recognize the current "ST" value but it can see the "GV" values. So unless you would be able to have the current show up as one of the GV numbers with the temperature nodes that would work for me.

@tazman ,

sorry for the delay, been on vac with the kids.

Was just coming to answer when I see your last message.

So, lets me say back to you what I think you want.

• you want to on some regular interval take a value from a variable

• put it in a GV value with the KW or (and?) KWH unit

• does the variable need any other processing? (conversion or multiply/division)

• you are just using the temperature device as a model, there is no need for temperature functions

Let me know if I got it right.

If the above is correct and this is of value you could come at this a couple of ways.

1. kluge the temp device to make this work

2. make a specific device for KW or KWH

3. make a generic device which the user in their set-up would set the unit and maybe conversions if required.

I'm not doing #1, the temperature device is the ugliest device already. My preference on it is to remove the AC controls and have it set-up with the yaml or json. #2 could be done quickly but may be a user base of one. #3 could be useful to some of the other HA users who are moving values back and forth to variables and want some units attached to them.

The #3 device could look like this ST = status of the node, GV0 - GVn could be a list of values with units defined in the set-up json or yaml. UD has added a feature which lets nodes be defined pragmatically rather than being hard coded in profile files. I have not tried it out but this adds significant flexibility to nodes which need this.

Interested if anyone else would find value in #3, to make the mountain worth the climb.

@sjenkins thank you for considering this the more I think of it my needs are very basic that I just need to pass a variable number to a GV number where the designation of that number is not really important. Right now I'm using the temperature node and showing previous reading which is a GV value. To give you some context I will attach a picture of some of my mirror display which has information that is there so I don't have to open an app all the time and is also there for my household to see.

If there are no other people with use for this I'm ok keeping the workaround in place that I found. I hope you had a good vacation and again thank you for the consideration!

@tazman ,

That mirror is beautiful, very nice job. I get the desire to get the data public for all to see. I need to get around to something like that.

If you are good with the workaround, then I will put it on the list but not too high. If we get more interest in #3 I could move it up.

Let me know if that changes.

Thank you @sjenkins for all you do for the community!