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[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

Hi

I’m really sorry that I didn’t see your post about this sooner, it’s almost exactly what I was trying to achieve.

My solution looks like this

[SOLVED] BBC weather RSS Latest Title split to <64 characters for Velbus OLED (AKA Splitting Strings)

I wanted to be able to display a short string on the Velbus OLED panels that gave a description of the weather. [Velbus Oled panel scrolling a weather feed] (I’m sure that Cédric will add the Edge Lit Oled panels to the Velbus binding when his schedule permits.) I’ve managed to use a simple rule to copy “Now playing” information from music systems to the OLEDs of Velbus panels, but the weather is more of an issue because the BBC RSS feed can be longer than the 64 character limit o…

I did wonder if I used the full description from the BBC RSS feed I could get data like wind direction, sun exposure etc.