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Visualization templates

Ready-made ways to show your data on Home, picked when you create the watcher — no HTML/CSS to write. Each one looks at your data and figures out what to show on its own; you don't need to tell it your field names in advance.

TemplateWhat it needs from your data
Key/value list (default)Nothing specific — shows every field you send, as-is
On/off statusA field that looks like a state: true/false, exactly 0/1, or a common word like "on"/"off", "yes"/"no", "connected"
Highlighted numeric valueAny numeric field — shown big, with its name as a caption
Highlighted textAny non-empty text field — shown big, with its name as a caption
Progress barA numeric field, treated as a percentage from 0 to 100
Last updateNothing — it only looks at when your most recent data point arrived, and turns red if it's been more than 15 minutes
Pill listNothing specific — same as the key/value list, shown as small rounded chips instead of a table
Total on-time (today)Same on/off-style field as above — adds up how much time it's been "on" today, e.g. for something like a VPN connection
Top values ranking (today)A text field — groups today's events by that field and ranks the top 5 by total time, e.g. which file was open the longest

None of this is permanent: which template a watcher uses can't be changed after creation from the wizard, but you can always remove the module from Home and re-add it — or just create a second watcher pointed at the same idea with a different visualization.

Next: Managing one afterwards.