The powerspectrum plugin

Available since version: 0.10.0
Author: Christian Mayer

Description

The powerspectrum plugin and widget creates a graph to show the power spectral data that the Enertex Smartmeter can send on the KNX bus.

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Pages and structure of CometVisu.

The behaviour and appearance of the powerspectrum plugins can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ..... are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the powerspectrum-element

Element Attribute
  Name Content Description
powerspectrum type string Select the type of the powerspectrum by entering “current” or “voltage”.
showlegend true or false Boolean value to display a legend.
singlephase true or false Boolean value to select the view of only a single phase.
spectrumonly true or false Boolean value to show only the spectrum and not the curve as well.
limitname string Display name for the limit curve. Used in the legend.
limitcolor string Color for the limit line.
name1 string Display name for the first phase.
color1 string Color for the first phase.
name2 string Display name for the second phase.
color2 string Color for the second phase.
name3 string Display name for the third phase.
color3 string Color for the third phase.
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Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements und their attributes

Element Attribute
Structure Name Content Description
powerspectrum
  • layout
colspan decimal Amount of coloumns this widget sould be wide.
colspan-m decimal Overrules the amount of coloumns on a medium screen.
colspan-s decimal Overrules the amount of coloumns on a small screen.
rowspan decimal Amount of rows this widget should be high.
x string Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages.
x-s string Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
x-m string Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
y string Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages.
y-s string Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
y-m string Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
z string Reserved for future use.
width string Width for the widget for 2D pages.
width-s string Width for the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
width-m string Width for the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
scale true or false Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages (default: true).
scale-s true or false Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a small screen (default: true).
scale-m true or false Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a medium screen (default: true).
Element Attribute
Structure Name Content Description
powerspectrum
  • label
  • icon
name string  
type string  
flavour string Selection of a display variant. See also Flavour.
color string  
styling string Change the color of the dispayed value depending on its value. See also Styling
class string Add this value to the CSS class so that it can be formated by a user provided style sheet.
powerspectrum
  • label
    • #text
  string Text to display a label for the widget.
Element Attribute
Structure Name Content Description
powerspectrum
  • address
transform string  
mode disable, read, write or readwrite  
variant string  
format-pos decimal  
powerspectrum
  • address
    • #text
  string The GA (like: 12/0/7) for KNX-backends or the item name for openHAB-backend
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Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the powerspectrum plugin.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes

[1]The simple view might not show everything. To see all elements/attributes use the expert view.