Template language support / default language for PRs

[hhenkel]

As mentioned yesterday I own a Paradigma SystaComfort II - I implemented all of the modbus details for it and I'm thinking about opening a PR for it. I saw that your current generated template for the SystaComfort II is in english, however I expect most of the people owning such a heating system to be located in germany (as it is a german company). Therefore the question arises if there is language support for templates or if we would need to have different templates depending on the languages?

If I got further ideas for improvements (enable / disable certain registers in the template) or issues (with the usage of the json options field) - should I open an issue for each?

[partach]

I have transfered to the discussions, this is the place to discuss these things.
Thanks for reaching out and supporting, appreciate it!

Generally i want to support many templates that already can be overwhelming for most users. Having each template in their own language would be overkill maybe. I will investigate what i can do. Can you attach the template json file in the discussion in German so i can play arround with it?
Danke!

[hhenkel]

This is the current state - it does not fully reflect the latest changes you made like icons. It might be nice to have an easy way to enable/disable certain registers (like the test registers) and reload the template to reflect the changes. Another thing that I recognized was, that during the update of the extension, the template folder gets replaced - is there a way to have a custom template folder?

paradigma_systacomfort2.json

[partach]

Not sure what HA does on update. I would assume all files and directories in protocol_wizard are erased. So you need a directory outside the structure maybe. Not sure if the integration is allowed to go beyond that, need to check. There is now also a feature to export template, which will reflect your sensors in a template. That is at least a start as the sensors will survive an update. This way you always have your template back by a simple export at least.

[partach]

I have made a branch to refactor the templating and make sure the user templates are stored elsewhere and left in tact.
It will survive updates and re-installs. There you could store them in your own language. Either by:

1. Loading temlplate, change the names, export to user template land. (can be cumbersome for many entitities)
2. Provide template to AI, ask it to convert to your language, upload it in template user land (/config/protocol_wizard/templates//mytemplate.json), delete your entities (or the whole device). Add with your new template
   It will be part of next release!
   O, and, i have added language files for many common languages, so now the integration is there in German :)

v0.7.0 with above updates is out.

[hhenkel]

Not sure if I find time tonight to have look and test it out, but will do for sure and give feedback!