Caution

This is the documentation for the current development branch of the CometVisu. It is possible that some of the described features are not yet available in the current release.

Also there might be lots of errors in this documentation as some parts of the content have been translated by an online translation service.

The Reload widget

Author: Christian Mayer

Available since: 2014

Description

With the reload widget, the visu is added a switch, which allows to reload the full visu in the browser.

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Basics.

The behaviour and appearance of the Reload widget can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ….. are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the Reload-element

None.

Allowed child-elements and their attributes

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
reload address	transform	string	Transformation of the bus system value to be shown.
	mode	disable, read, write or readwrite	“disable” deactivates the communication, “read” will only fetch data from the backend, “write” will only write to it and an address with “readwrite” will be both, read from and written to.
	variant	string
	format-pos	decimal	Position for format string when multiple addresses are used.
	selector	string	Only MQTT: JSON selector
	qos	decimal	Only MQTT: QoS
	retain	true or false	Only MQTT: retain flag
	ignore-error	true or false	Only MQTT: ignore decode errors.
reload address #text		string	The GA (like: 12/0/7) for KNX-backends, the item name for openHAB-backend or the MQTT topic

Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the Reload widget.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!