Support digital displays iterating through different modes
Author: caco3Created Jan 29, 2023Updated Sep 2, 2026
Labelsenhancement
The Feature
There are energy meters with digital displays which alternate to display different informations. Eg:
- Value of low tariff
- Value of high tariff
- Time
- ...
They usually automatically iterate through those modes based on a time interval. They usually have a spot on the display which shows the currently showed mode.
There where now several requests for such thing, so we should consider looking into it.
Sources:
We would need to:
- do the alignment
- detect which mode currently is shown.
- only proceed if we are in the right mode.
- if not in the right mode, we should try again (not waiting until the next round is up)
This also would allow us to have 2 numbers (eg. for 2 tariffs) which show their information on the same spot. An example for this is the meters as documented in https://www.aew.ch/sites/default/files/2019-06/uebersicht-der-haeufigsten-zaehlertypen-der-AEW.pdf. They switch between the shown tariffs every 15s.
Source: jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device