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Can anyone tell me how to increase and send back a decimal properly? I don’t get how casting should be handled:

ng-click=“sendCmd(‘EGWZHZThermostat_4_SetTemperature’, 1.0*itemValue(‘EGWZHZThermostat_4_ActualTemperature’) + 0.5)”

doesn’t seem to work…