I have a value from 1 to 8 that I want to show on the dashboard as arrows. All I can do are simple arrows: ↑↓→←. Is there a way to do this using unicode or extended ASCII where I can also get arrows like these? [arrows]

You can try: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_arrows.asp

Use the dashboard template node for testing.

I don't see how a template could put a unicode symbol on the dashboard. Right now, I am using a change node to take, for example, a payload of "4", and change it to an ALT-16 character (►). There are more appropriate arrows in the Unicode world, but the dashboard only shows the standard ASCII set. …

What widget you are using in the dashboard to display the arrows ? Here an example using the template and the ui_text. [r-1] [{"id":"fcec496b.4a3828","type":"tab","label":"Flow 5","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"77cd324a.3a3c6c","type":"ui_template","z":"fcec496b.4a3828","group":"6b088045.d465…

Thank you professor- I understand my homework assignment.

I am understanding a bit more and can display discrete arrows in the dashboard text node. My problem is that I want to use one dashboard text node by sending the arrow code to it from a change node. But when I try to put "<P>←</p>" into msg.payload, I get gibberish in the text node. Any id…

So what settings do you have in the ui-text node? please provide a flow showing the issue from the inject to the ui-text node

Hi, simply sending unicode string should work. [{"id":"21b42045.65ad3","type":"tab","label":"Flow 1","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"6d1adb8e.557194","type":"ui_text","z":"21b42045.65ad3","group":"6b1cbf30.904d2","order":0,"width":0,"height":0,"name":"","label":"text","format":"{{msg.payload}}",…

Thanks, your help is appreciated. Here is my experimental flow. [cgm experiments] (Flow text below) Poll state returns a number (text) from 1 to 7. What I want to do is use the change node to replace the msg.payload with the arrow code, but that doesn't work. (In my experiment I only changed r…

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SteveMann 15 February 2020 04:20 3

Those are HTML codes. How do you put them into the dashboard?

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