Help with wew heater status under System information

[gostnghost]

I have a on and off button for my dew heater under the system information window. like this

The status updates when I click the ON and OFF buttons. The problem is that if the Dew heater module changes the value, the status doesn't update here. Is it possible to read the dew heater status (AS_DEWCONTROLHEATER) in the allskydew.json file and update the System information when I enter this page without clicking ON or OFF?

/Göran

[Alex-developer]

Its not possible at present but I will create an issue for it to be looked at after the next release, which is in testing

Alex

[gostnghost]

Thanks Alex!

[jsalsburg]

I might suggest using NodeRED to control your Heater. You can tell the Heater to come on based on the RPi CPU Temperature or a networked Temperature/Humidity sensor, then manual operation will be eliminated. NodeRED and MQTT are very easy to implement on the RPi and will not interfere with AllSky.
https://nodered.org/docs/
https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi