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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[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.