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Logging of system sensor specific for the RPI and sending them to a MQTT broker
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Feature: Option in settings to set network throughput unit #108

Open MaxVRAM opened 3 years ago

MaxVRAM commented 3 years ago

kbps (kilobits) feels a little outdated as a human-readable unit of measuring network throughput. I understand bits have always been a standard in networking, but I personally find MB/s (megabytes per second) far easier to process in my head when I'm quickly scanning a page full of numbers. Bytes are also the standard format of most browser download speed monitors.

Having the option to choose your own unit of measure makes sense to me.

I considered if having a shifting unit (KB/MB) depending on throughput value would work - but I realised it wouldn't gel well with Home Assistant's data logging and Lovelace card graphing displays. In HA it's possible to make a template or Node Red flow to grab the values and process it, but that would mean another HA device would need to exist with the modified values. If anyone else can think of a solution to that particular issue, feel free to chime in.

Otherwise, I'm happy to implement this feature when I've got time in the next couple of days. Just popping the feature idea here so I remember or if anyone else wants to have a crack before I get around to it.

Sennevds commented 2 years ago

Maybe add a attribute with a display value. With the real value send and be logged to the database and the display value being used in the frontend.