Temperature units in virtual devices

[jensmoes]

I have created some virtual devices which collect temperature (among other things) from an old weather station.
Is there any way I can access the Defaults.xml from my module to determine whether to convert the data to Fahrenheit for display?

[pofs]

You'd better create an option in module settings, like OpenWeather module does.

[jensmoes]

So it is not possible to create virtual devices that obey the system defaults? It doesn't make much sense to have multiple temperature unit settings for each module.

[pofs]

Defaults.xml is intended for z-wave subsystem, which operates at a lower level than JS automation and virtual devices.

But you may still load value from Defaults.xml if you want it that bad. To do so, first make a symlink to config directory inside automation (because fs.load() is restricted to work only under automation folder):

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cd /opt/z-way-server/automation
ln -s ../config

then use the following code to load value:

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var xml = new ZXmlDocument(fs.load('config/Defaults.xml'));
var isFahrenheit = parseInt(xml.findOne('/Defaults/CommandClass/SensorMultilevel/Fahrenheit/text()')) || 0;

[jensmoes]

Thanks pofs. That will solve my problem.
Are there any plans to implement full locale support in the automation layer?