I was wondering if there a way or work around to customize LED component. Being a NB perhaps I do not understand the complexity to create something similar to image below. I liked the LED display but that I can not use with Labels. If I use LED components I can not show characters in it.
Unless you're making a DeLorean time machine there's no reason to make your HMI look like 1970s or 1980s. At the time 7-segment displays were the best on offer (and 14-segment if you were rich) on machine interface panels. Now you have all the benefits of scalable vector fonts, beautifully designed for legibility, proper kerning (inter-character spacing, unlike the 7-segment '1' digit pushed hard-right in its display position) and high contrast.
You can switch the LED Display component segmentFormat : 14 segment but you will have limited character support (no ° symbol). [Don't use 'Deg F'. '°F' would be right - if you have to use Farenheit.) You would have to have a second LED display to generate the label - but there's no need. In the case of the 'cleaner interface' you posted, it has two 7-segment displays and two backlit stencils showing °C and °F so they are displayed as graphics rather than 7-segment characters. (Note how they're still legible despite their small size.)
If you insist, then consider using a label with an LCD font. (You'd have to install the font on the gateway.)
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@Transistor - Thank you. I am not trying to recreate 70s and 80s look. I am using 14 segment LED display only. Just could not get °F into the LED object. If I can show °F and °C that would be great. I just posted the image to show the difference, it is my bad that I could not a better image on the left.
I think the closest you're going to get to the degrees symbol is ".
I am not trying to recreate 70s and 80s look.
You'll have one if you use the LED Display component!
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Recommended starting point:
https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor
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Responding exclusively to the text in your screenshot:
...there are two components and every time you add a unit, it adds another label.
Consider watching this video, as well as supplemental videos that accompany.
The idea is that you can create whatever graphic you like, with all of the complicated functionality you desire. Then, you instantiate that same view / template / widget over-and-over throughout your project as a single embedded view object, with parameters passed in.
