How display sensors value ?
I created an ACCESSORY driver implementing a sensor among other things, it works, I can use the sensor value in recipes, but is there a way to display that value on the NEEO remote? on the shortcuts slide for instance? When i'm trying to add shortcuts, only actuators such as buttons and switches are listed. Am I missing something ?
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You miss nothing, it is just not possible.
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As you are already using an SDK driver anyway, you could create a textlabel and then update that textlabel whenever the sensor value changes.
https://neeoinc.github.io/neeo-sdk/#lib-device-devicebuilder.js-addtextlabel
https://neeoinc.github.io/neeo-sdk/#lib-device-devicebuilder.js-registersubscriptionfunction
You can find an example here: https://github.com/NEEOInc/neeo-sdk-examples/blob/ca1ce1c4af213b5bc4dbb4c2865d0a2d933b4389/lib/playerComponent/index.js#L36 , https://github.com/NEEOInc/neeo-sdk-examples/blob/ca1ce1c4af213b5bc4dbb4c2865d0a2d933b4389/lib/playerComponent/PlayerController.js#L51 , https://github.com/NEEOInc/neeo-sdk-examples/blob/ca1ce1c4af213b5bc4dbb4c2865d0a2d933b4389/lib/playerComponent/PlayerController.js#L45
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Michael Kohler Thanks Micheal, I'll give it a try.
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Michael Kohler OK, it works, but there are some annoying issues:
- The label text is automatically converted to uppercase, what's the point ?
- The font is freakishly small, is there a way to make it a little bit bigger ?
- Looks some characters such as ° are automatically converted to something else (deg) on the NEEO remote, but not on the NEEO app. How character encoding is supposed to be handled ?
See picture below.
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Marc Martin Textlabels are uppercase to match the other shortcut labels. This and the font size are were deliberate decisions. There is currently no way for the user to make the font bigger.
Regarding the °, we currently render only characters that we are 100% sure they can be displayed in the remote font. Other characters get transliterated. There are currently explorations going on regarding supporting more characters on the remote, this is not a given yet though. In any case, good catch, the "deg" and any other transliterated character should probably be uppercase too in shortcuts to match the rest. I've filed an internal issue to have a decision/fix for that.
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Michael Kohler OK, noted. Is there some official place where developers could appeal for more liberty about user interface design on the remote? I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one to find it unnecessarily restrictive. 🙂
Also note that the Remote and the Android app don't handle the ° character the same way.
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Marc Martin said:
OK, noted. Is there some official place where developers could appeal for more liberty about user interface design on the remote? I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one to find it unnecessarily restrictive. 🙂There are already several threads in the voting section (https://planet.neeo.com/category/idea-voting) for different UI topics.
Marc Martin said:
Also note that the Remote and the Android app don't handle the ° character the same way.Yes, on the App we know that we can display almost anything, including UTF8 characters.
