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Pollen count Tile that would show Pollen Count including decimals

Jon Stolz 4 years ago • updated 4 years ago • 2

I am trying to convert the Pollen Count number from a Pollen count Device Handler to a Lux number through use of Webcore. The reason for this is I want to have my Actiontiles have a tile that displays the Pollen count in a Decimals format, not just a whole number. Actiontiles does not have a Pollen Count capability, but it does have illuminance.

I already have converted the Pollen Count index measurement to a temperature capability, and that is displayed on my Dashboard as a whole number with the degrees symbol BUT that only gives me a whole number, no decimals.

Any way to convert the Pollen Count to any kind of Virtual Device which does display decimals? Either through webcore or some other means?

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Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 4 years ago

Hi Jon,

Power and Energy tiles also display decimals.

Could you share how you are creating virtual devices that display arbitrary values from webcore?

There was a request to hide units from tiles that display measurements. This will be rolled out next week. This will help you to display your tiles more cleanly.

Jon Stolz 4 years ago

For Pollen Count I am using Webcore :  PollenCount is the device from the device handler  {SimTemp} the variable SimulatedPollen the device so it can be used in ActionTiles as a tile

xSet Variable {SimTemp} = PollenCount index

Capture attributes index to local state SimulatedPollen's temperature

With that said: Can Actiontiles just create a Device Handler or simulated tile or virtual tile that allows for a number without saying lux or degree symbol etc. where the user can just create a virtual device that captures the data from whatever, and display the capability in an Actiontile tile that the user just types in the Custom Tile Header?  I am hoping that is what you meant in your post from July 1. 

I am also doing the same thing with Air Quality from PurpleAir.  I change it's attribute to Lux which if there was a virtual tile that allows for just a number, I would do that instead of transforming the number to Lux.

Thanks for all your efforts in Actiontiles, love this program!

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