Do cards automatically update?

#1 THALL 2021-11-23

Mainly the card at the top of the screen showing Generating, Consumption etc. I am not sure this is automatically refreshing? I have it loaded usually in google chrome but could use Edge. Eventually I would like to leave the home flow card open on a screen at home for the family to view like I used to on the original dashboard. But if this not automatically updating I wont bother.

#2 Sykes 2021-11-23

THALL Mainly the card at the top of the screen showing Generating, Consumption etc. I am not sure this is automatically refreshing?

@THALL
Like you, I'm not convinced that this data auto-updates.
Also, there's no facility to force a refresh either, so I find myself refreshing the page, which takes one back to square one.

@simon_swinburne - I have a feeling that this may have been mooted & replied to elsewhere, but I'm not sure; apologies if this is the case.

#3 chris_p 2021-11-23

It would also be great to have a little date stamp of "Last updated" on each card too please @simon_swinburne

#4 simon_swinburne 2021-11-23

Sykes
Data doesnt auto update at present. It will in the future as its needed if the pages are used as remote monitors on tablets etc

Coming soon will be a refresh button on cards to easily get them to update ( as an interim)

#5 simon_swinburne 2021-11-23

chris_p
The "date last updated" is in the backlog. I did get that added to the legecy portal and people found it useful so it will be ported across. Probably not on every card as the update applies to all data, so maybe in the header or somewhere always visible

#6 Sykes 2021-11-23

simon_swinburne
Thanks Simon. refresh button will be fine; in fact, even if I knew the data auto-updated, I'd still use a refresh button each time, anyway - to know I was looking at nearly real-time data.

#7 THALL 2021-11-23

Ah sometimes I love "Beta" other times I like a simple life :-)

#8 simon_swinburne 2021-11-23

be aware there are 2 differnent requirements here.
1) The data disllkayed in a web page refreshes to reflect the latest data sent to the portal ( which is every 5 mins )
2) To request new data so you dont have to wait 5 minutes

Both are being progressed. Both will initially be manually invloked as a MVP

In the future automatic refreshed for the portal will happen, but we need to work though the challenges re data strorage for more frequent data storage ( the tech is easy, the economics not so much ). If data packet refresh is only done on demand and 5 mins that mitigates that concerns, unless people write a bot to automate it !!