The Reload widget

Author: Christian Mayer
Available since: 2014

Description

With the reload widget, the visu is added a switch, which allows to reload the full visu in the browser.

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 Reload widget 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 Reload-element

None.

Allowed child-elements and their attributes

Element

Attribute

Structure

Name

Content

Description

reload
  • address

transform

string

Transformation of the bus system value to be shown.

mode

disable, read, write or readwrite

“disable” deactivates the communication, “read” will only fetch data from the backend, “write” will only write to it and an address with “readwrite” will be both, read from and written to.

variant

string

format-pos

decimal

Position for format string when multiple addresses are used.

selector

string

Only MQTT: JSON selector

qos

decimal

Only MQTT: QoS

retain

true or false

Only MQTT: retain flag

ignore-error

true or false

Only MQTT: ignore decode errors.

reload
  • address

    • #text

string

The GA (like: 12/0/7) for KNX-backends, the item name for openHAB-backend or the MQTT topic

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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 Reload widget.

Caution

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