Updatig a widget when item not updating?

[xsherlock (Maciej Eckstein)]

hi all,

I have a simple label-card

component: oh-label-card
config:
  footer: =dayjs(items.WARP_LastUpdate.state).fromNow()
  item: WARP_LastUpdate
  title: Charger Last Update Time

And the footer has human readable time display to tell that a EV charger died or craped out.

So when the lastupdate date time stops updating the footer is not updating anymore, if I reload page it will update once on load, and thats it? Is there a way to make it update like every 10sec or so within the card itself ?

Or the only way is a rule that will put it into the text string and hold as the item?

TIA
Maciej

[JustinG]

It will require a rule of one form or another. See this thread for a brief explanation:

Auto-refresh charts and widgets in MainUI

As people migrate over to OH3 and the MainUI from other UIs, many are surprised to find that MainUI charts are static on a loaded page and won’t refresh unless the page is reloaded. Here I’m providing a fairly simple solution that allows you to set up timed, automatic refreshes for charts on a page (or another widget that you have configured with custom content that doesn’t refresh). When Do Widgets Refresh? So many of the standard widgets and components do respond to changes in item states …

So, you’ll need a rule to update either a string item with your time string or some other item that causes a change in a key property as shown in that link.