some ideas for an easier workflow

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Till I found this I got used to modbus tester www.powerhud.com which got some advantages when trying to dig undocumented modbus devices.

I think protocol_ wizard could benefit from implementing something similar.

What I do miss most is an option to be ticked which would allow for continously re-read (definable poll rate) while modifiying either datatype, sizes or addresses, so that one mustn't end up with a
do
click size +1
click READ
loop
until one reached the end of an ASCII string (e.g. the required size/numbers of addresses for that entity)

Next one, while it's pretty cool it does display ASCII besides binary and HEX .. but where the hell is DEC? :-) or why is that missing when having RAW enabled? It always takes a while to use a HEX>DEC calculator besides if you know you're after address which do hold 5550W while you only see binary and HEX as results.

Next one ... if you read some more registers in RAW mode in one go ... I'd suggest to move the output window in the card to the bottom below all buttons, because if you need to modify any value you become a mousepointerscroll expert if you have to modify a setting and then press READ. Perhaps this becomes obsolete if you think about the first idea mentioned.

And well ... Create Entity would surely benefit from an option "save as YAML" so that one could adopt/modify/adjust created entities more easily instead of looking at the details of the entity and then re-invent a YAML, wipe the created entity and add the YAML one.

Directly added this integration to my list of 'must-have-integrations' :-)

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Appreciate you like it!
Will take these things into consideration (am a bit busy with 5-6 other integrations atm).
Regarding your last remark there is an export to json feature in the template section. Doesn't that already do this?

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Mostly implemented as requested, let me know if ok like this

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Perhaps too hot in here, but sorry I don't see anything being changed after having fetched the latest version.
Perhaps a browser-cache issue ... have to check that later this eve.

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yes, browser cache! in chrome press F12 then right mouse click on the refresh button and choose the last one to clear the cache for that page and reload. Guaranteed it will work

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yep, that cache thingy is one of the common problems most times.

Thanks a lot for this update, 'auto read' and displying the DEC value are most welcome.
Great job, done.