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MickD
24 Feb 2026
Numeric Slider on app
Good afternoon, I am not sure if I am doing something incorrectly, but I have two numeric sliders on the "app" The first is a hour of the day going from 0-23 and the second a numeric value between 1 and 13. When modifying the value on the app, (Android Phone and PC), the slider seems to skip some values, eg will skip 5, 9, 14 , 18, 19 then seems to be ok. On the second slider 1-9 are ok, 10 and 11 are missed and then 12 and 13 are ok. The value that is displayed on the "app" sends ok to an ESP8266 on finger lift, (mouse unclick etc) just can't seem to set the missing numbers. I may have sausage fingers on the app, but it seems consistent on a PC running chrome. Has anybody any thoughts please..
Thank you
Gizmo
24 Feb 2026

Hey Mick,

lol...don't you worry, your fingers are fine, it's the f*@#☠️ browser being a 🍆 . I couldn't reproduce exactly what you are getting but I've caught a similar behaviour on some values and there is definitely some rounding up happening.

Once I can reproduce an issue I can fix it so leave it with me and I'll sort it out.

Actually, this could be a good motivation for me to redesign the slider. You see, on a phone we are limited with the width of the small screen. If you divide the screen width with the sausage finger factor that doesn't leave much in terms of a smooth number of steps you can have especially if you account for the finger going over the bezel/edge
....so....my plan is to make the slider vertical, we have a lot more vertical space on the screen (won't go full height but maybe half and centred so no edge to contend with.

What'ya reckon?

Anyway, I'll sort first the current slider and I'll post here when it's done and then crack on with the vertical

G
MickD
24 Feb 2026

Thank you for the response. What you suggest makes sense, although will it limit the current 4x2 widget layout? The problem still exists with the screen in landscape mode.

Thank you
MickD
25 Feb 2026

Good morning. Looks like you have had a win with the vertical slider. Works well with no issues, thank you.
Gizmo
25 Feb 2026

my pleasure, it's been on my todo list for ages and the code behind it I've written some years ago so it was a good opportunity to tidy it up.


Shout if you spot anything else

G