Flow Formula suggestion

[shadow7412]

At the moment it takes the current maximum and minimum currents. I think if we had the ability to set our own max and minimum values (either instead of or in addition to the real ones) we'd get a more realistic animation.

Eg, If I set my maximum to 5kw, then even if the total system is only seeing 300W the animation would be slow, because we have the hardcoded maximum. Also, hardcoding 0W to minimum would mean that everything should animate consistently relative to that range.

If that was acceptable behaviour, I could see the value of 0 being used instead of the calculated minimum and a config-driven value for maximum working quite well.

[flixlix]

I like this suggestion, but I am currently focusing on other additional features, so it will take some time.
@shadow7412 would you be willing / capable to submit a PR for this feature?

[shadow7412]

I'm unfamiliar with the HACS layout, but I'll give it a whirl time permitting.

[shadow7412]

See #34

[flixlix]

merged #34
Thank you for your support!

[shadow7412]

I think we might need more work on this... the difference between 25W and 1kW seems indistinguishable...

[flixlix]

Yes I noticed this right after merging. I didn't have this issue while testing, because I set max_expected_flow_w to 10, so then it makes no difference... I'm currently working on other features though, so I don't have much time for this

[flixlix]

I'm currently working on another flow rate formula, I'll see when I can finish it. For now I'll close this issue. Thank you anyways for your PR 👍