ALTUI : New Features Suggestions

[quote=“amg0, post:118, topic:188330”][quote=“tomvanbreda, post:117, topic:188330”]All the best for 2016.
Is it possible to display wattage variable on the home screen for favorite devices if it is available.[/quote]
yes, will be in v>=1075[/quote]
Thanks, works perfectly.

amg0,

That Hide/Show devices check box thing you just added is great!

Can you do that for Rooms too?

Thanks again for what you do.

[quote=“MSW, post:120, topic:188330”][quote=“amg0, post:119, topic:188330”][quote=“MSW, post:116, topic:188330”][quote=“amg0, post:114, topic:188330”][quote=“SadGamerGeek, post:113, topic:188330”]These would all be useful to me.

Sometimes it’d be useful to see just temperature and humidity readouts for instance - it’d be great to be able to select just those two device types.

The wattage readout of devices would be really handy too. For instance, I have some power monitoring switches which I never actually turn off - I’m using them purely for their power readouts. I can tell from them if my PC is sleeping, idling or being taxed by something. I also use the power usage of my amp to tell if it is turned on or on standby.[/quote]

todo list for multiselection of category
regarding the power outage, jsut to be sure I undersatnd , can you show me a screen shot of where the power outage is supposed to be displayed , while it is not in your case ?

on mine, if a watts variable is there, it is displayed ( cf attached screen shots )[/quote]

It shows for certain device types, but certain ones not - for thermostats it is not showing.

Also, what about easy ability to hide devices from the UI?[/quote]

for thermostat, I struggle with the real estate. could you please do a small screen snapshot and show where/how you would see that watt information to be placed ? thanks ![/quote]

I see the problem. Maybe in the top right corner over the auto/cycle/on selection?

I also want to make sure you saw the suggestion to easily add a way to hide devices from the arrow menu in the top right corner of each device - Variables/Actions/Control Panel/Hide-Show Toggle[/quote]

Really helpful changes with the easy Show/Hide for each device and the checkboxes to view device types, thanks!! Still would love wattage on thermostat controls (suggested where to put it above) but I can do it myself with the custom page editor (what a fantastic tool!).

Hi ,

From the Vera UI , it is possible to launch ALTUI in local mode from the ALTUI DEvice / Settings by clicking on the button Run button OPEN WINDOW .

Great but it would useful to have a Run button OPEN WINDOW for local mode and to have a new second Run button OPEN WINDOW for remote mode.

The Vera user then can select either mode aacording his location local or remote

[quote=“gerardosamara, post:124, topic:188330”]Hi ,

From the Vera UI , it is possible to launch ALTUI in local mode from the ALTUI DEvice / Settings by clicking on the button Run button OPEN WINDOW .

Great but it would useful to have a Run button OPEN WINDOW for local mode and to have a new second Run button OPEN WINDOW for remote mode.

The Vera user then can select either mode aacording his location local or remote[/quote]
ok wil be in >=1102

I would really like to see a combination of the device icon and the multi state in custom pages. When clicking on a device icon it would act like a multistate button. Example: Turn light on and off by clicking on its bulb device icon.

Interesting. An easy way to do that might be if you made the multistate button invisible - then you could put it on top of the device icon and get your desired behavior. That would only require the addition of a ‘invisible’ option on the multi-state button…

Suggestion to enable a way to copy a full variable name to the clipboard when scanning through a device’s variable list. It would make it easy to write LUA code for customization (for example, if I wanted to write some custom code to read the current temperature).

Is it possible to post the magic number along with each version? I would love to take advantage of some of the new features as they come online in my remote location, but it seems the magic number is needed to force an update if one is not local.

Thx

[quote=“tedp, post:129, topic:188330”]Is it possible to post the magic number along with each version? I would love to take advantage of some of the new features as they come online in my remote location, but it seems the magic number is needed to force an update if one is not local.

Thx[/quote]

Would that method work ? => you can open MiOS Apps , click Show files and get the PK_Version number displayed on url. for instance 30140 right now.

from which screen do you mean , maybe the device variable dialog box ?

one way is to go into MISC/DEBUG choose One Device’s states and then all the service/variable are displayed as text where you can easily copy/paste from

Altui plugin can access OS commands… via menu Divers/Command OS .

So it would be interesting to overcome the SYSTEM plugin by integrating all its features in Alt UI … so for an AltUI user there will be no need of the SYSTEM plugin … by implementing this in a unique menu “Vera ressources” for example

Hi amg0,

There is a new version of Datamine and they wondered how to get that working remotely on UI7. Again your great ALTUI comes to the rescue. I tweaked the draw routine for Datamine. Maybe you can include this for the standard release. I could not find a good way to see if you run remote or local other than looking at the protocol. With mine the MultiBox.getIpAddr returns empty in all scenarios. I’m sure you can do this a bit cleaner.

[code] function _drawDataMine( device) {
var html =“”;
var url = “”;
// var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
// var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
// var url = window.location.protocol+‘//’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
if (window.location.protocol==‘https:’) {
var controller = MultiBox.controllerOf(device.altuiid).controller;
var isUI5 = MultiBox.isUI5(controller);
if (isUI5 == false) {
var main_url = window.location.href;
var url_parts = main_url.split(“?”);
url = url_parts[0]+“?id=lr_dmPage”
} else {
url = ‘https://’+hostname+“/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_dmPage”;
}
} else {
var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
url = ‘http://’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
}
html+= (“{1}” .format( device.altuiid,_T(“Open”) )) ;
html += “”;
return html;
};

[/code]

Cheers Rene

[quote=“reneboer, post:133, topic:188330”]Hi amg0,

There is a new version of Datamine and they wondered how to get that working remotely on UI7. Again your great ALTUI comes to the rescue. I tweaked the draw routine for Datamine. Maybe you can include this for the standard release. I could not find a good way to see if you run remote or local other than looking at the protocol. With mine the MultiBox.getIpAddr returns empty in all scenarios. I’m sure you can do this a bit cleaner.

[code] function _drawDataMine( device) {
var html =“”;
var url = “”;
// var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
// var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
// var url = window.location.protocol+‘//’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
if (window.location.protocol==‘https:’) {
var controller = MultiBox.controllerOf(device.altuiid).controller;
var isUI5 = MultiBox.isUI5(controller);
if (isUI5 == false) {
var main_url = window.location.href;
var url_parts = main_url.split(“?”);
url = url_parts[0]+“?id=lr_dmPage”
} else {
url = ‘https://’+hostname+“/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_dmPage”;
}
} else {
var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
url = ‘http://’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
}
html+= (“{1}” .format( device.altuiid,_T(“Open”) )) ;
html += “”;
return html;
};

[/code]

Cheers Rene[/quote]

ok no problem, thx for the code
I just changed to use “MultiBox.isRemoteAccess()”. here is the file if you want to test it. I ll include in the next release but since I have to travel this week it could take a litle while

Build 1155 has the Watch table, which is great, so I’m wondering if there can be a button against each Data Storage watch to take you straight to the appropriate plot.

Looking at Table - Scenes. Scenes may be sorted by clicking on the header. Last_run does not sort correctly perhaps due to the nature of the date format. Might be a useful go to.

yes, in next version

[quote=“reneboer, post:133, topic:188330”]Hi amg0,

There is a new version of Datamine and they wondered how to get that working remotely on UI7. Again your great ALTUI comes to the rescue. I tweaked the draw routine for Datamine. Maybe you can include this for the standard release. I could not find a good way to see if you run remote or local other than looking at the protocol. With mine the MultiBox.getIpAddr returns empty in all scenarios. I’m sure you can do this a bit cleaner.

[code] function _drawDataMine( device) {
var html =“”;
var url = “”;
// var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
// var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
// var url = window.location.protocol+‘//’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
if (window.location.protocol==‘https:’) {
var controller = MultiBox.controllerOf(device.altuiid).controller;
var isUI5 = MultiBox.isUI5(controller);
if (isUI5 == false) {
var main_url = window.location.href;
var url_parts = main_url.split(“?”);
url = url_parts[0]+“?id=lr_dmPage”
} else {
url = ‘https://’+hostname+“/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_dmPage”;
}
} else {
var ipaddr = MultiBox.getIpAddr(device.altuiid);
var hostname = (ipaddr==‘’) ? window.location.hostname : ipaddr;
url = ‘http://’+hostname+“/dm/index.html”;
}
html+= (“{1}” .format( device.altuiid,_T(“Open”) )) ;
html += “”;
return html;
};

[/code]

Cheers Rene[/quote]
released in 1163

Build 1163: Loving the commands on the watch menus… much easier to get to all the graphs, although still not one click, but two :frowning: :wink:

Would it be possible to have device name as an optional column in these watch lists?

[quote=“akbooer, post:139, topic:188330”]Build 1163: Loving the commands on the watch menus… much easier to get to all the graphs, although still not one click, but two :frowning: :wink:

Would it be possible to have device name as an optional column in these watch lists?[/quote]

ok, had to release a bugfix with 1166 so this is also part of it