How to control chart, configured as pie?

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It's not an ideal situation but Colin has done a lot to get the chart widget working, including the ability to tweek it via ui_update.

I think the failure of the legend to display unless something is in Series is a non-positive feature of the underlying code library.

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@jbudd and @Colin,

I tested @Colin 's "Inject" node, but it did not work for me, in spite of changing the value in the "Inject" node.

I think, I leave it for the moment and move to a standard gauge, that has been proposed earlier.

Both of you, thanks for all your efforts and investment of time.

Regards

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What do you mean 'it didn't work'. Did it do anything? Did you try clicking the inject node? What happens if you set the 65 to 10?

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Also restart Node-red and clear your browser cache after changing chart settings.

(Full deploy in Node-red is not sufficient.
At the client side, Ctrl-F5 to reload the page might be enough, clearing the cache is safest.)

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For me, clearing the cache is rarely necessary. It is sometimes necessary to restart node red, though, if refreshing the page is not enough.

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Hi @Colin

Sorry, I had to be more precise.

With 'it didn´t work', I mean that it was not the solution.
It gave exactly the same result as before (without the legend)

Did it do anything?

Yes, I think it did once.
This probably related to the config of the Inject node?

Did you try clicking the inject node

Yes, of course, otherwise I would not need an 'Inject' node :slight_smile:

What happens if you set the 65 to 10?

I did not use 10, but I used 50 and then 40.
But will try with 10.
I will report later.

@jbudd

Also restart Node-red and clear your browser cache after changing chart settings.

I did. It was necessary, because after trying @Colin's "Inject" node, the work aroud with
the empty string in "Series did not work anymore.

I do some more test now and report back.

Regards

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@Colin

I did some more tests with a clean flow.

  1. Radius 65%, as created by you
    Result: Legend and texts are visible. So what is expected.

  2. New data injected
    Result as above Okay

  3. Cleared the widget.
    Result: Widget cleared.

  4. New data injected
    Result: Legend is visible, but lower test (freemem) is missing.
    The new data "Inject" gives a doughnut instead of a pie
    Re-Inject your "Inject" node did not solve this.

  5. Changed radius to 10% from 65%^ followed by a NR restart
    Result as 4

Whatever I do now, I do not get a pie, always a doughnut.

Is there anything I can try? Anything you want to know?

I have decided to focus on the classic gauge node: node-red-dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic (node) - Node-RED
I assume you are familiar with that :wink:

Regards

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A doughnut shape indicates that the chart thinks it is dealing with two (or more) series, one of them may be left over from a previous test.

If the widget has "series" set to a space, restart node- red and clear the browser cache.

I found it best not to "append" data sets but to "overwrite", which is why i previously suggested you should combine readings into a single message as an array of objects.

It may help to send an empty array before each inject to clear the chart.

Sending msg.ui_update options is not a one-time thing, it needs to be added to every message.

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Yes it is a one off. You should not send it with every message, otherwise the browser will eventually clog up.

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An excellent choice I think, though the default gauge would also be ok.