How do you delete a generic device?

[chadhobson]

Unless I'm just missing it right in front of my face, there's no trash icon and its throwing an error in the console when you click the device at the top of the screen.

[rstrouse]

Hard refresh (clear cache) your browser.

[chadhobson]

Tried that. No change.

Deleted it completely and re-installed. Same issue, so its repeatable. Will try to install it locally and debug it since its a pretty simple issue to test: "Create a generic device. Try to delete it."

[chadhobson]

Alright, figured out some more info to help here. This is on a Pi4.

• Did a fresh install of REM
• Added i2c bus
• Added MEGA-BAS to i2c devices
• As a test, I created a 10K temp probe under generic devices and was able to delete it fine.
• Created the same generic device again - can see the delete button still
• Created a feed under the MEGA-BAS to send probe data to generic device

And here's where it breaks. Once I associate the feed with the generic device, I no longer see the save or delete buttons on the generic device. Nothing I do short of a total reinstall will allow me to remove the generic device.

At first I thought it was because there was a feed tied to it so maybe you can't allow edits or deletion of the generic device but even after deleting the entire MEGA-BAS (addr 78) from the i2c bus list, still can't edit or delete the generic device.

And I should also mention that the only reason I need to edit the generic device to begin with is because it doesn't retain my input type being ohms and units being kohm. As soon as I link the feed to the device, it changes these values to Raw Value and 10-bit Input.

[rstrouse]

Please make sure you are sending the right value. You need to be sending the in0-10x.value one not the full object. This is in the docs but I haven't gotten around to moving the other unit based items to the end of the list. So double check the feed from the MEGA-BAS the send value should be 0-10v in #(x) value

[chadhobson]

I am... here's my output...

But once you're done on this screen, go back to generic devices and click on the temp probe. Does your seem to lose its settings?

Notice the Input Type and Bitness. Shouldn't that be resistance and kohms? And either way, shouldn't there be some value for temperature showing?

Side question: How do you dev on this app when you can't plug a MEGA-BAS into your Macbook? Are you replaying captured data or have you emulated it? I don't see a test suite here either.

[chadhobson]

Hmmmm... something I just noticed. Your screenshot has the word "value" in both red circles. Mine doesn't have it in either. Am I running the same version as you? Mine says its 8.0.0.

[rstrouse]

Scroll down in the dropdown and you will see a second set of options for the feed that include value. Also, if you run REM on a computer without an I2c bus it will create Mock devices.

[chadhobson]

Now its showing temperature in REM. And the device is also editable/deletable. So the error above is likely that it was trying to run replace() on an object rather than a string. Makes sense.

The only part still not working is the display of this temperature in the Pool Control Dashboard. It says "Pool Temp" but there's no value and its greyed out. I assume the REM config is pulling all the data, correct? I don't need to create a generic device feed in REM to push to the dashboard?

Sorry for all the questions but the wiki kind of ends at this point, unless I'm missing something.

Thanks for all your help!

[rstrouse]

The pool temp will only activate when the pool body is activated. As soon as you click it the temperature will show if REM is feeding this temperature to njsPC. It is greyed out because you will find that the temperature probe is only accurate when the water is flowing past it. When you turn off the body it will retain the last running temperature as this will be what the temperature of the pool water is not the temperature of the water in the pipes.

You do need to feed the temperature probe to njsPC. Create a feed on the generic temperature sensor that references watersensor1 on njsPC.

[chadhobson]

Excellent. Now its working perfectly. Closing and moving on... thanks @rstrouse!