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laurenceh asked

Enhancement request - VRM - Generic reading (Humidity, anything) rather than "Temperature",

With the anticipated release of a 0-20ma interface, could we request that the VRM graph display any generic scale readings (which can be named by the user) rather then only plotting "Temperature" devices. Tanks, temperature and humidity (and probably other values) are all numbers which generally range somewhere between 0 and 100. This could be made backwards compatible by allowing the old /temperature/ services plus a new /generic/ service.

On my boat I have a humidity sensor to monitor for cases where I might have a condensation problem. Next time I visit I'm going to update my "humidity" service to publish its data as a "temperature" so that the VRM will log it, and then rename the device as humidity. This seems an unnecessary work round which could be avoided if the VRM realised that any single value 'generic' service could be plotted and given the name assigned by the user/installer.

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trygvelu answered ·

I second this - it's very useful to add sensors for monitoring the environment of the installation.

Dashboard looks like this now (rpi2 with bme280 sensor via i2c):

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