Feature request: Ekranos LP level display; show 'gallons remaining' to 1 decimal place

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I have Mopeka LP tank sensors. I don’t fully fill my two 30# tanks so that I can a) manage the tongue weight of the trailer and b) so they are not as heavy.

Propane is sold in gallons in my [US] State so what I currently do is take the percentage shown on the Ekranos display and compute the gallons to one decimal place. Where the fraction is important since I’ll buy up a full gallon when the faction is under 0.5, and not if it’s 0.5 and above.

Also, showing to 1 decimal place will present a clearer picture of how much propane remains in a tank that registers as having 1 gallon left.

I really like that the Ekranos unit displays the actual level and not just the percentage.
Percentages are cute, and I know Mopeka’s phone app only shows them, but they don’t give actual level info that’s more useful when making the decision to run into town to get a propane tank refilled while you’re out camping vs. waiting until you get back home.

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This is a good idea for small tanks, my LPG tanks show single digits. However, it is not as simple because I do not want my multi hundred gallon water, fuel and waste tanks showing decimal places. It would need to auto show or hide the decimal point based on the tank size.

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It would need to auto show or hide the decimal point based on the tank size.

Or auto show/hide based on the ratio involved for each sensor.
For example, when your tank is full at 7 gallons each gallon is of more interest than when your tank is full at 300 gallons.
Not sure what the ratio sweet spot would be however.

Although I don’t see it being that big of a deal to show 2 extra characters (a period and a numeric digit) per LPG sensor on the display. But then I only have two small tanks being monitored.