How to show the status icon for a variable

skarcha

Hello guys!

I’m developing a NodeJS module that it’s a NUT (Networks UPS Tools) client, and at the same time, a Pimatic plugin that use it to monitor my UPS info.

You can see the result in the following image. I’m pretty happy, except for the “OL”. This is the status of the UPS (OL is On Line and OB is On Battery).

pimatic-nut

I would like to show the status in a more attractive way. Something like the status used in pimatic-ping.

I know I could do it if I code a new class that extends env.devices.PresenceSensor, like plugin-ping does, but then I couldn’t show all that variables in a row like now.

Is there a way to do it? @sweetpi ?

Thank you very much in advance!

DavidZH

I am fully aware of this topic being quite necrotic and the developer has not been around for long time, but still going to ask my question.

I am trying to use the .status variable in a rule to see if the UPS is in an alarm state. If so, the alarm message will be displayed. Else the variablesDevice will display a " - ". But now I have refreshed the battery cartridge the message says "undefined", not quite stylish. Actually almost the same wish the author has with his "OL" message.

I have tried all kinds of rules:
$sys_tool_UPSinfo.status = true and
$sys_tool_UPSinfo.status = 1 also
$sys_tool_UPSinfo.status = "true" just as
$sys_tool_UPSinfo.status = "OL"and finally
$sys_tool_UPSinfo.status = "on line"
The first one throws an error, the rest just never comes out as TRUE. I tried to take la look at the coffee script on github to see if I could get useful information from there. In line 81 it clearly state the .state variable is a Boolean. Why can’t I check the state of that Boolean in a rule?

And in related questions: when I use the NUT-device in pimatic I see the fruits of the developers question above. The status writes either "on line" or "on battery". But when I use a variablesDevice to display the values (just so I can calculate the remaining time in minutes, that sort of stuff) I get good old "true" and "false". How does that work?

I might be up for crash course in javascript… Because I know nothing! 🤓