@max64 said in MMM-Nest-Status - New module for your Nest thermostats and protect smoke detectors!:
Love the module. (and I tried them all)
2 humble requests:
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Any way to add a transparency setting to the entire graphic so that an underlying background pic can partially show through? (Can that be done via custom.css?)
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Can you add a “initial polling delay” config option? (similar to what is in the weather forecast module). My use case is a vertical monitor where I have two instances of the module loaded. One in top-right (Upstairs) and one in bottom right (Downstairs). Nest recommends polling of not more than once per minute with separate device per hour and token limits. I set up each instance of the module to use a different token, but as you can only set the ‘updateInterval’ it’s a challenge to get the two modules to stagger the calls. (And I think this is why i was getting “null” response displayed after a while… )
1 observation: when using the “alignment” option, both text and graphics are justified according to the setting. This is OK for “center” and even looks OK for “left”, but it does look odd for “right” where the thermostat graphic itself is flush right of the allocated space (e.g., top-right), but the title text is also right justified (.e.g., Upstairs) and not aligned with the graphic itself. IMHO the text above and below the graphic would look best centered with the graphic, and then the whole block is “aligned” according to the setting chosen.
Again…great work.
- Certainly - add this to your
custom.css file and the dial becomes transparent:
.mmm-nest-status .thermostat .circle {
background: transparent !important;
}
.mmm-nest-status .thermostat .dial-classic .dial-circle {
fill: transparent !important;
}
The !important means that this will also apply when the thermostat is heating or cooling (eg. it will no longer have the blue or orange background). If you only wish for the grey version of the dial to be transparent, remove the !important.
If you’re using the classic mode of the thermostat, setting the styles above means you get a nice colored glow when the thermostat is heating or cooling:
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It’s already there - for some reason I just forgot to add it to the documentation. Just add initialLoadDelay with whatever value you want to your configuration. The value is in ms, so if you want a 1 minute delay, set the value to be 60000.
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In regards to your observation - that’s a legit bug, thanks for spotting it! The alignment setting should only apply to the graphic itself, not the text inside it. I have pushed an update that fixes it, so if you pull the latest version of the module from github, it should be fixed.
It’s an interesting usecase you have - I hadn’t even thought about using 2 instances of the module to have separate thermostats displayed on the screen in separate locations.
The reason you’re getting the null response is because of this:
https://developers.nest.com/guides/api/data-rate-limits
(I’ve updated the module to display a more helpful error message when that happens.)
Anyway … it’s not a good idea to make 2 separate calls to the Nest API to get the data (that gives you even more of a chance to get that null error), so check out the latest version (1.3.0) I just pushed - if you use the same token in both module instances, they’ll only do 1 call to the Nest API and use the sockets to update both thermostats at the same time :thumbs_up:
Thanks for the comments!
