When I'm looking for a contrib node, usually the keywords narrow down the selection, but after that, I look at who wrote/maintains the node.
If it's you, Steve, Bart or one of the other well established developers, I'd know it would work, be well thought out & well maintained. But I take your point about newcomers.
I assume that title, max and min level,nand number of segments are all configurable so what ere its enduring characteristics
Horizontal
Single bar
Discrete levels (variable?)
Multi colour 'led'
node-red-dashboard-2-graph-horiz-single-bar-multicolour-LED
Mmmh! a bit long but descriptive
So
node-red-dashboard-2-graph-horiz-bar
I expect this horse has already bolted but @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard is not called node-red-dashboard-2
So nodes developed for it should be @developer/node-red-dashboard-something.
Actually I am currently trying to make the standard gauge widget look like a vertical LED array. DB1 version shown vs DB2 so far. It's giving me grief and way too many !importants.
So a vertical led gauge from @hotNipi, yes lovely!
Unless you are viewing it on Firefox!
An led gauge version of the core widget would be more welcome [to me] than the tank with simulated waves.
It's really not relevant to this thread but since you ask:
In my original dashboard I have a template node which provides the vertical LED display pictured above. It includes a bunch of hocus-pocus which I would prefer to dispense with.
$scope.$watch('msg', function() {
...
}
Migrating ... Q1 Can I strip down the standard gauge node [battery] with CSS?
Well kind of, but it's of no practical use.
And why vertical? It represents a sight glass to show a boiler fill level.
I have about 20 arguments against a gauge being vertical and couple of supporive ones. I definetely leave those for another thread.
Until there's no such widget available - I have actually shared prototype of vertical version.
So maybe you just waisting you time, just take it and modify by your needs, no need to fight specially with CSS of the ready made vue based widgets. They go very deep some times ...