Control In Node - No Data in Drop Down Box for Control and State

[hndenman]

Trying to set up a temperature guage using a Control In node as the source

But when I try to specify the data for the Control and State boxes I get a bad drop down box and cannot select anything

It says that Loxone is connected to my Node-Red

Where am I going wrong?

[codmpm]

Did you mark the wanted as control as "visible"?

[hndenman]

Hi Patrik and thank you for responding So I can see the temperature sensor output in my Loxone App - pls see photo - so I assumed that I would be able to see it in the drop down. I think I understand the way the API works is that it can only access what is shared with the App Thanks Nick

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Did you mark the wanted as control as "visible"?

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[codmpm]

Dear Nick, sadly no photo here.

[hndenman]

[codmpm]

Same picture in both posts ;-)

[hndenman]

and this is the Loxone Config set up

[codmpm]

Hmm. Seems good. Can you supply the Miniserver version and the JSON-Snippet from node red with your flow? Oh... and a screenshot from the used modules in LoxConfig.

[hndenman]

[hndenman]

Not sure how to find the JSON snippet

[codmpm]

Mark the nodes in node-red and the use the export menu entry in node-red's menu.

Not needing your extension, a screenshot of the relevant LoxConfig parts (program area with used modules) will do.

[hndenman]

[ { "id": "874e802864e94b5d", "type": "loxone-control-in", "z": "74aa925355c2660a", "name": "Bed 1 Temp", "miniserver": "18d65cca2f29cd26", "control": "", "state": "", "x": 130, "y": 360, "wires": [ [ "9a734e1f7a110de0" ] ] }, { "id": "9a734e1f7a110de0", "type": "ui_switch", "z": "74aa925355c2660a", "name": "", "label": "switch", "tooltip": "", "group": "eef6120571f564d1", "order": 1, "width": 0, "height": 0, "passthru": true, "decouple": "false", "topic": "topic", "topicType": "msg", "style": "", "onvalue": "true", "onvalueType": "bool", "onicon": "", "oncolor": "", "offvalue": "false", "offvalueType": "bool", "officon": "", "offcolor": "", "animate": false, "className": "", "x": 450, "y": 360, "wires": [ [] ] }, { "id": "18d65cca2f29cd26", "type": "loxone-miniserver", "host": "192.168.1.160", "port": "7777", "enctype": "0", "active": true, "keepalive": "30000" }, { "id": "eef6120571f564d1", "type": "ui_group", "name": "", "tab": "3bef7eb069d110ea", "order": 1, "disp": true, "width": "6", "collapse": false, "className": "" }, { "id": "3bef7eb069d110ea", "type": "ui_tab", "name": "Test 1", "icon": "dashboard", "disabled": false, "hidden": false } ]

[hndenman]

[hndenman]

Hi Patrik did you have any other thoughts? thanks Nick

[hndenman]

Hi Patrik i am running Home Assistant on an Intel NUC (not a Raspberry Pi) and am running NodeRed inside Home Assistant in case this has an impact. Thanks Nick

[Piranha1511]

I also have a question to this. The controls are only available in NodeRed if these are marked as "Visible" in Loxone. But what if I don't want this and only use it in NodeRed but don't wanna make it visible in the Loxone App? Is there a way to do this?

[codmpm]

I also have a question to this. The controls are only available in NodeRed if these are marked as "Visible" in Loxone. But what if I don't want this and only use it in NodeRed but don't wanna make it visible in the Loxone App? Is there a way to do this?

Nope - as long as Loxone does nod add a function for this.

Put the needed elements in a romm/category that itself is not visible. That should work.