System channels - standardising the UI [message #1702857] |
Sun, 26 July 2015 11:49 |
Chris Jackson Messages: 256 Registered: December 2013 |
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Following on from the discussion about the battery system channel, I had expected that the system channel would be usable in a standard way by the UI. For example, by defining the "system.battery-level" channel, I expected that in the UI I would be able to detect all battery-level channels/items from all bindings, and display them consistently rather than having to know the different naming conventions that different binding have used.......
However, that doesn't seem to be the case. The channelType is not available to the UI - only the channelId is available. This means that in reality there is no standardisation from the UI perspective, which seems a shame. I could use the category (Battery) to provide this, but that's a very broad brush...
In my way of thinking, system channels are there so that they can be treated consistently throughout the system, but without some way of passing this to the UI, it seems quite limited?
Have I missed something somewhere? How is this intended to be used?
Chris
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