Adding specific cards for manufacturers

[Rosi2143]

Hi,

what do you think about the idea of adding cards for the specifics of a manufacturer?

e,g, I have lots of equipment of Homematic-IP that have certain features that are not covered

• rollershutters: mode changes to activate different timing programs (e.g. holiday, workday, absence)
• thermostats: mode changes (party, absence), boost mode, auto/manual, show window contact
• ...

and other things that do not really work as others

• rollershutters: you cannot read the percentage from the same item used to set the percentage

so the idea is that we have widgets in each folder - that the user can choose. e.g.

• main_widget_RadiatorControl_Card

• main_widget_RadiatorControl_Card_HomematicIP

• main_widget_RadiatorControl_Card_Bosch

• main_widget_Rollershutter_Card

• main_widget_Rollershutter_Card_HomematicIP

• main_widget_Rollershutter_Card_Bosch

So the community can add/extend the main cards with extentions for a brand.

Please comment on that though if it would go with your concept ideas.

[hmerk]

In general, I am not against that idea, but I am not shure abot how this should/could be implemented, as it would need a user config, which we would like to avoid. Another difficulty I see, what about having different types/manufacturers installed. Before switching completely to Shelly TRV, I had thermostats from the MAX! type and Eurotronic Spirit Zwave. Having individual widgets per manufactorer, we would not be able to automatically show up the widgets by detecting RadiatorControl in the model within a mixed installation.

Therefore I would tend to find a solution on how to show the missing information within the general widget. This could, from my perspective, be achieved by some more complex expressions, evaluating if special strings can be found in the item name.

[Rosi2143]

OK.

I will give it a try and may come back with a MR for this in a few days.

[hmerk]

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