variables from youless plugin can not be used in expressions

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I am in the process of setting up a nice display of current powerusage that is calculated from solarpanel production (youless), and smart meter values : power infeed and outfeed.

I want to use the equation $youless.actualusage - $current-outfeed + $current-infeed in an expression. This should give the actual value for current power draw. I run into a problem however. The value for $youless.actualusage always remains zero in this equation. Also de value $youless.counter is zero when used in an expression. I do get readings from the youless without problems and when I display variabels I can see that is actually has a value! Just not when used in an equation… Very strange and hard to debug.

Anyone have a clue?

@Woodhousezb >>

This is the code I use: Again the youless device itself just displays the numbers correctly. Anywhere else i use them they have no value
"devices": [
{
“id”: “youless”,
“name”: “Youless PV log”,
“class”: “Youlessdevice”,
“ip”: “192.168.2.14”,
“timeout”: 10000
},
{
“id”: “vermogen-ber”,
“class”: “VariablesDevice”,
“name”: “PV productie vandaag”,
“variables”: [
{
“name”: “Actueel vermogen”,
“type”: “number”,
“expression”: “$youless.actualusage * 2”
},
{
“name”: “Totaal geproduceerd vandaag”,
“type”: “number”,
“expression”: “$youless.counter * 2”,
“unit”: “Wh”
}
]
}

This is a bug in the plugin. I’ve created a pull request with a fix: https://github.com/kjdijkema/pimatic-youless/pull/1

Oops, didn’t see tis blog post nor the pull request until this morning. Thanks sweetpi for fixing the issue!
I 've publised an updated version of the plugin on npm.