Displaying custom automation as "On" in the UI

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Hi Cameron, hope you’re well :slight_smile:

I’ve made a custom automation. The actual automation is working fine and it shows up in the “Select dosing automation” menu but I’m having difficult displaying the automation as “On” in the UI, and it also doesn’t show me the option to “Stop” it:

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In contrast to chemostat:

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I can see it’s on by the Target pH in the Settings showing as what I’ve set it to but it’d be great to be able to see it as “On” and “Stop” it similar to the chemostat.

I have tried:

  • The attached yaml file in ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/automations/dosing
    control_ph.yaml (588 Bytes) (This seems to be doing what I expect in terms of giving me those options in the “Select dosing automation” menu
  • The attached yaml file in: ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/jobs
    ph_prediction_and_control.yaml (315 Bytes)

With this setup I get the “Target pH” in the settings.

I have also tried:

  • changing: ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/jobs/ph_prediction_and_control.yaml source to “app” or “ph_prediction_and_control” (my plugin name)
  • deleting ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/jobs/ph_prediction_and_control.yaml and just having ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/automations/dosing (but the “Target pH” in the Settings disappears)
  • moving ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/automations/dosing/control_ph.yaml to /var/www/pioreactorui/contrib/automations/dosing (as the other user tried here)
  • Overwriting /var/www/pioreactorui/contrib/jobs/04_dosing_automation.yaml with added published_settings
  • Creating ~/.pioreactor/plugins/ui/contrib/jobs/04_dosing_automation.yaml with added published_settings

The automation inherits from DosingAutomationJobContrib and has an automation_name specified:

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On each change, I refreshed the UI and also waited 30 seconds, and I have also rebooted. I’d be most grateful for any insights! Thanks in advance. Vicky

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I figured it out! Id overwritten the “dosing_automation” job name. Now corrected.

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!!! nice one. Yes, the way to add fields to the UI isn’t very inuitive. So, for example, you need to add the “Target pH” setting to the dosing_automation.yaml in the jobs/ folder

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Yep, added that now, thanks. I guess it doesn’t matter too much if it’s not intuitive as you get very visual feedback :smiley: