Device naming in German?

[FearNaBoinne]

Where does the module get names and such from? The devices generated were the friendly name with GERMAN extensions, whilst my Domoticz is set up in English...

Also when I look in the message/comment section, I see German phrases.

[joba-1]

Hi,

the german messages are hardcoded in the sourcefiles since it is my native language. I asked how a plugin can determine the language main domoticz uses, but did not get an answer. So for now, all I could do are ugly worksrounds. One of them is ask you to change the handful of words in your copy and send a pull request so others can find it.

[FearNaBoinne]

Cool... NP! I can live with that for now... If I have some more time on my hands again, I will see what I can do for English (and detecting language?).

[Barry40]

Is there a way around to do all coding in english please? I have ALOT tasmota devices upcoming, i do not like to rename everything.
This plugin is working perfectly anyway, great job.

Thanks!!

[joba-1]

Sorry, I don’t understand.
Can you give an example of what you do, what you get and what you‘d like to get instead?

[Barry40]

Sure,

All names of tasmota devices with this plugin are in German, i want to have it in english please 🙂

[Barry40]

You can see here...

[FearNaBoinne]

The English would be "Voltage", "Current", "Total", "Yesterday", "Today", "Power" and "Apparent Power" (The unit of the latter should also be VA rather than Watt, but that is a different discussion altogether)

[joba-1]

So it is basically the same answer as before: when I wrote the plugin I have not found a way to reliably detect the language a user wants and then how this usually is done in python. So for now there is no good mechanism for this :(
Currently I can only recommend you change the names (and units) before the devices are created:

https://github.com/joba-1/Tasmoticz/blob/master/tasmota.py#L224

Probably I should revisit that, now that the plugin seems to have more than one user. Do you have an idea how to detect a users browser/domoticz language from within a domoticz plugin and how to do proper internationalization in python?