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@cweinhofer Hi,

I do not know ESPHome but it looks like it sends the data via MQTT.
So you can use MMM-MQTTbridge to receive messages and MMM-ValuesByNotification to format and display them.

@cweinhofer its ok… who reads the doc?! lol…

like any other reference manual it leaves out a lot of detail.

someone could write 50-75 pages of explanation with matching output examples. but it would be a bear to maintain… as we still take changes to provide other formatting options…

(a recently submitted one wants to show ONLY the start date/time when the event duration is 0 and showEnd is true…)

@cweinhofer each instance client causes request to data providers (even thru node helpers). almost NO module shares data with other instances
(I made concerted efforts in my MyCovid19 module to do that… not easy) ( I think one of the third party climacell weather modules does this)

so same or different port doesn’t help here. same or different instance doesn’t help, same or different server.

all the same.

for the 4 or 5 of you that might want to do this, you can create scripts to merge common elements, use source repositories and other approaches to minimizing the work of config construction, without burdening the core support with out of scope function.

this is a composable information display panel with a single view.

as this is open source, you are welcome to take the repo and do what you suggest.

to have your idea considered more specifically, you should open an issue on the GitHub repo to engage the core team.

nothing said here will affect this kind of change

@cweinhofer as mentioned over there, open an issue on GitHub for the project owners to examine

many old I* devices don’t support the es6 JavaScript operators that most of us are using and going to. so the code won’t run. don’t know about android, but would expect the same problem

I know there was a PR a couple years ago to restore the old operator based code, but it was not selected

@cweinhofer I am glad it helped

@cweinhofer remember, when the update comes out to watch for the update error…

Those are different types of variables:
The first one is a number the second one a string. Boolean only has the values true and false which are exactly the same as writing 1 and 0. the true and false statement is there for readability in the code but gets replaced by 1 and 0 when executing the program 😉
So when you put quotes to the number it is a text that includes this number, but you need it as a number you can use for example for calculations (obviously convertions are possible)
For strings usually you can use either double or single quotes and both will work. it is usually a thing of consistency (which on is already used) which one you choose.
However there are a couple advantages in using double quotes.

JSON notation is written with double quotes (although it might work with single quotes aswell) double quotes are more convenient when your already familiar with other programming languages like C that often use double quotes for strings for people without programming experience double quotes are already familiar from their language where a text is marked with double quotes aswell When you need a single quote in the text you can write
“It’s a boy”, but you would have to write ‘It’s a boy’ using single quotes to mark that the single quote does not end the string.
However when you use double quotes in the string to mark a text inside it’s the other way around :
you could write ‘Simon says: “I am happy”’ but with double quotes you need to write “Simon says: “I am happy””

Hope I could clear the confusion a bit.