I was wondering if someone could help clarify the gauge smoothing options.

Take for instance engine hours, it increments at 0.05.

There is an option for 'smallest increment' which I need to set to 0.05 for it to show decimal places down to the 100th's place.

The 'smoothing' option is described as follows:
Prevents gauge from moving rapidly by minimizing the amount of movement for each screen refresh.
Which makes me think I need to set this to 0.05

Now the issue I have is with these settings engine hours creeps up from 0 to the current hours by increments of 0.05 when the panel boots which takes a while. I know this has something to do with the smoothing, however if I set this to 1, will I see the gauge update when the engine hours ticks up? Based on the description I read smoothing as it won't update the gauge until it see's a difference of 1 which mean's I wouldn't see the gauge change until an hour goes by, but I don't think that is correct.

Smoothing is generally used to damped down rapidly changing values. Especially with a rotary gauge where the needle could be bouncing. In this example you really wouldn't need smoothing on a value like engine hours because it is incrementing upward and not bouncing. A text gauge can show 2 decimal places by setting the Smallest Increment to 0.05 and Decimal Places to 2. Really shouldn't need smoothing. It should show the decimal places as often as the Engine Hours PGN is requested and received.

Thank you, that makes sense.