Pimatic-Floorplan Temperature

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Thanks to all developers for a great job. I’m a big fan of Pimatic, runs for over a year without any problems. But now I don’t get any further.
I have now tried to create a temperature display in Floorplan for 4 days, unfortunately without success. The plan states that the ending .svg is entered. This doesn’t work with the devices, so I have to leave out the ending to get a display. The light function works, can switch the pump, but does not display the temperature.
Following configuration:

Device

},
  "hardwareId": "28-0415912ac0ff",
  "interval": 3000,
  "id": "kesseltemperatur",
  "name": "Kesseltemperatur",
  "class": "DS18B20Sensor"
},
{
  "hardwareId": "28-0416011a64ff",
  "id": "solarkollektor",
  "name": "Solarkollektor",
  "class": "DS18B20Sensor"
},

],

Floorplan Device

{
  "floorplan": "haus1.svg",
  "devices": [
    {
      "name": "Solarsensor",
      "svgId": "text1096",
      "type": "sensor",
      "pimatic_device_id": "solarkollektor",
      "pimatic_attribute_name": "solarkollektor_temperature",
      "acronym": "Wert",
      "unit": "C",
      "format": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Solar",
      "svgId": "path1084",
      "type": "light",
      "pimatic_device_id": "solarpumpe",
      "pimatic_attribute_name": "solarpumpe_state",
      "format": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Solarkollektor",
      "svgId": "rect1002",
      "type": "sensor_bar",
      "pimatic_device_id": "solarkollektor",
      "pimatic_attribute_name": "solarkollektor_temperature",
      "format": ""
    }
  ],
  "xAttributeOptions": [],
  "id": "haus",
  "name": "Haus",
  "class": "Floorplan"
}

what am I doing wrong

GUI

The boiler temperature is displayed correctly

Hi, good to see the floorplan plugin is used
I got a few questions:

1. Do you want to display the sensor value in a bar or text field?
2. what do you mean by “The plan states that the ending .svg is entered”?
3. Are you sure that the temperature attribute of the solarkollektor device is called “solarkollektor_temperature”? Mostly its called “temperature”

I meant this description. https://pimatic.org/plugins/pimatic-floorplan/

excerpt from description (inclusive .svg) if i am not allowed to use it on devices, it will not be displayed.

creating a floorplan

Create a svg floorplan with a background of the room(s) your want to ‘floorplan’ and add graphics for the devices you want to use. A good and free program for this is inkscape. The ID tag of a sgv device object need to match the device-attribute in pimatic (see Linking the floorplan svg and pimatic).

Save the created svg file in the public folder of pimatic-mobile-frontend (pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public. The filename (incl .svg) is use in the device config.

Linking the floorplan svg and pimatic

In the svg file you need to name a device object with the following ID (the label is not used)

name: <pimatic device id>_<attribute name>

examples:
switch ‘my-switch’, the ID is my-switch_state.
presence sensor ‘my-sensor’, the ID is my-sensor_presence
temperature attribute of device ‘whats-the-temp’, the ID is whats-the-temp_temperature

The underscore between device id and attribute is important! Underscores in the devicename are no problem.

The device object that you create must have the option to fill it with a color. Otherwise the states colering will obviously not work. The color, font size, etc of a text field (sensor values) must be set in the editor.

then in my example “solarkollektor_temperature” should be correct

or not

tried in my test sensor and sensor_bar, no values displayed (undefined)

I understand the problem. You are using the old info on https://pimatic.org/plugins/pimatic-floorplan/. Thats after its created not updated anymore (the auto-update of the readme seems not to work).
You should use the instructions on github https://github.com/bertreb/pimatic-floorplan

I changed the linking mechanisme for easier usage. You can use the the svg id field independent from the pimatic device id and device attribute.

thanks, it works now

A question about the temperature values (decimal places) Can these be rounded.
The display would be nicer without decimal places.

Tried to create a variable, but cannot insert this device.

{
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "kesselsensor",
      "expression": "roundToNearest($kesseltemperatur.temperature,1)",
      "type": "number"
    }
  ],
  "xAttributeOptions": [],
  "id": "kessel-round",
  "name": "Kessel Round",
  "class": "VariablesDevice"
},
{

thanks

You made a nice 'floor’plan
What happens if you format the attribute temperature of the device kesseltemperature.
Edit the kesseltemperature device and add a xAttributeOptions. Enable displayFormat with the value “fixed, decimal:1” (no quotes)

Addition: when you use in the variablesDevice the expression roundToNearest or formatNumber the result type is “string” (and not “number”).
You can try if that will solve the formatting.

I don’t get any further with adding the xAttributeOptions for the boiler temperature. Can you show me this in my example?

That works with the VariableDevice, I get a rounded result. But I don’t see any possibility to display the VariableDevice in Floorplan.

For the variables device, the config of the floorplan device should look like

    {
      "svgId": "<svg id of the kesselsensor>",
      "type": "sensor",
      "pimatic_device_id": "kessel-round",
      "pimatic_attribute_name": "kesselsensor",
      "name": "Kessel sensor",
      "format": ""
    },

You can use this config for every variable of a variables device.
Of course you need to change

• the pimatic_attribute_name to the variable you want to use
• the svgId to the svg object
• the type, if you want something else than a sensor

Thanks for the help, now it’s perfect.
Now I understand it too.