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A dashboard provides an easy-to-understand display the current values from key sensors in a building. Here is an example:
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A dashboard provides an easy-to-understand display of the current values from key sensors in a building. Here is an example:
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[[images/sample_dashboard.png]]
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| ... | ... | @@ -12,9 +12,23 @@ At the very bottom of the editing page for the building should be a section for |
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[[images/dashboard_item_blank.png]]
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A Dashboard is made up of individual Widgets arranged in rows and columns. For the sample Dashboard shown above, there are 5 Widgets in the first row (a Label, two Green/Red LEDs, and two Gauges), and 4 Widgets in the second row (a Label and three Gauges). So, to create this Dashboard, you would need to enter 9 different Dashboard items for the building.
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A Dashboard is made up of individual Widgets arranged in rows and columns. For the sample Dashboard shown above, there are five Widgets in the first row (a Label, two Green/Red LEDs, and two Gauges), and four Widgets in the second row (a Label and three Gauges). So, to create this Dashboard, you would need to enter nine different Dashboard items for the building.
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This screenshot shows the three different types of Dashboard Widgets:
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[[images/widget_types.png]]
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A blank Dashboard item is provided to start with, and additional items are created by clicking the `Add another Dashboard item` link at the bottom of the page. When finished entering items, click the `Save` button for the Building found in the lower right corner of the page. If you would like to save your work before finishing all Dashboard items, click the `Save and continue editing` button, which will leave on the editing screen.
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Here are sample inputs for a Gauge Widget:
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[[images/gauge_inputs.png]]
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The `Widget Type` input is a dropdown showing the three different Widget types, `Gauge` being the selection here. Next, you need to specify where this Widget is to be located in the Dashboard. Row and column numbering starts with 1, and this Gauge is to be located in the second column of the second row. It is best to sketch out your Dashboard before entering values so that it is easy to determine row and column locations of the Widgets.
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Next, the Sensor that you wish to display in this Gauge is selected in the `Sensor` dropdown. If you want to title the Gauge with something other than the Sensor's title, you can enter the new title in the optional `Widget Title` box.
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If you look at the pictures of the Gauge control above, you see that a portion of the scale is colored Green and the rest is Red. The Green area designates the normal range of sensor values. You enter is normal range by filling in the `Minimum normal value` and `Maximum normal value` inputs for the Dashboard item. For this example, the normal ranges goes from a minimum value of 130 deg F to a maximum value of 160 deg F.
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Finally, the Gauge has starting value and ending value. BMON will make reasonable estimates for these given what you put in for the Normal range. But, if you want to explicitly specify the range of the Gauge, you can enter values for `Minimum axis value` and/or `Maximum axis value`. In this example, we let BMON pick those values instead of entering them.
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