small & clean text field in Dashticz?

[renerene]

To minimise place on my tablet I would lilke to show some data (temperatures, daily energy price) in a text field. That takes less room than the devices. How can this best be done?
I could make a dummy text sensor, but how to handle end of line returns?

[willemd]

I use the log of a text field to show a table.
have a look at the example here
https://user-images.githubusercontent.c ... a9ab04.png
I had to change the default font of domoticz, to make it non-proportional and I had to replace spaces with underscore to get a nice table.

The top line of the log is then shown in the icon, example shown on the same page
https://github.com/WillemD61/battery-planning/

[madpatrick]

You can make a dummy text sensor in Domoticz and the text can easily confiured in Dashticz
I've several text " blocks" in Dashticz and the text is controlled via a Dzvents script to update the text or control the text

Here an example of Dashticz Screenssaver

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[renerene]

You can make a dummy text sensor in Domoticz and the text can easily confiured in Dashticz

I like the clean layout of these texts.
How do you make multiple lines? A table layout option also would be nice.
Just need something smal to place a lot of textdata in.

[madpatrick]

It is very dependable where the information is coming from.
You can use tables or formatting it by html code
Dashticz is very flexibel

[renerene]

It is very dependable where the information is coming from.

From Domiticz offcourse
Maybe use dzVents to create some in-between variable / data file?

You can use tables or formatting it by html code
Dashticz is very flexibel

Sounds promising. Please elaborate. Do you have an example or instructions?

[madpatrick]

Sure.

This is a part of my DzVents script

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        if warmwater.state == "WW" and sensor.state =="On" then
            if not(afzuiging.active) then
                afzuiging.cancelQueuedCommands()
                afzuiging.switchOn().checkFirst()
                local message =  os.date("%H:%M",os.time() ) .. ' Ventilatie staat AAN'
                dz.log(message, dz.LOG_FORCE)
                textblock.updateText(message)
            else
                afzuiging.cancelQueuedCommands()
                dz.log('Ventilatie staat (al) AAN' , dz.LOG_FORCE)
                local message =  os.date("%H:%M",os.time() ) .. ' Ventilatie staat AAN'
                textblock.updateText(message)
            end

in Dashticz

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blocks['vent_block'] 		= {idx: 532, width : 4,hide_data : true,icon: ' ',title: 'Ventilatie'}

in Domoticz
make a virtual text sensor (mine is in this example idx: 532)

[renerene]

Thank you madpatrick. Got it working

1) For testing I copied the same text three times and experimented a bit with "/n" symbol and string.char(10). But have not found a "new line" method yet. But good to see Dashticz shows multiple lines and breaks automaticly. That is a good starting point.
2) the reserved space for the icon and the title is a bit of a waste of space.




UPDATE:
ah, needs some manual adjustments...