Hi! I am using the new switch pane and creating virtual switches in NodeRed and loving it! Have been working on creating an interface to control my Diesel Heater (with Afterburner) with NodeRed, and have a switch pane which sets a few states and provides thermostat control.
One thing that I think would be really useful is to have a “status Node” that shows up in the switch pane. I would like to be able to report the heater state back to the user so they can see if it’s on, off, or in an intermediary state (in my case: “warming glow plugs” or “cooling down” for example). I currently am doing this via “info” notifications, but it’s quite annoying to have the constant pop-ups and fill the notification pane with them. My ideal situation would be to have a Node on the switch pane which shows text status and a color, where I could send a text/color input to it within NodeRed. My apologies if something like this exists and I missed it 
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