Android Dash Board Browser with Motion Detection and MQTT

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Ah so you’ve seen motion detection work somewhere :slight_smile:

Every Android variant is going to theme the app a little differently so I wouldn’t go much by what the colors and all are.

MQTT can be a bit confusing at times, for as simple as it is, so don’t sweat it, there’s a place to get to it. I might suggest this wont be the friendliest app to work things out with. Try out MQTTBox to play with connecting and subscribing/publishing a bit. I keep MQTTBox up to look at what this app is doing too.

If you have adb working, if you could do as much as running “adb logcat > output.txt” on the command line, and just start the app fresh and poke around and turn the camera on and off etc, and then exit. Sending that file along might be helpful. Might show some clues. I’m used to looking at mine by now :stuck_out_tongue:

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Where do I find output.txt once done?

Interestingly in app permissions I can see camera is enabled but has never been used for the app.

And I forgot to mention I tried this on my other Nexus tablet that also only has one camera and not motion there - android version there is 5.1.1

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I’m hoping the debug output says something useful about why that is. Since I believe you mentioned there are other apps out there doing motion detection fine, I’m sure we’ll find a way to make it happen. There’s an assumption somewhere that plays fine for SOME tablets.

output.txt would be in whatever directory you were in when running that command. Maybe cd to your desktop first so its sitting there.

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Not much help - output text gives same error as trying to view live…

adb server is out of date.  killing...
* daemon started successfully *
Unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': No such file or directory
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I can see on the cloudmqtt server that it seems to be reporting from the newer Android 6 tablet with same settings but isn’t making it through to homeassistant - so I know settings are correct now. Maybe it’s a network thing.

I think perhaps I should wipe the tablet and either install same version as you have (cyanogenmod) or go to stock kitkat.

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Just FYI to all I’ve been working with @BarryHampants to keep banging on the camera stuff. It’s got to be something subtle about hardware differences. So far I have indeed discovered different hardware reports camera capabilities differently. Feels close though

If anyone else has a device that isn’t working maybe you’d like to join that testing :slight_smile:

Otherwise the build has some layout changes and settings will be broken out a bit, there’s a camera page that will have a preview of what the camera sees. I’ll have the camera adjustments there. Hopefully we get back into new features land after 0.4 :slight_smile:

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Looks like the bug has been found

On some devices if you do not specify a camera id when opening the camera, it doesn’t open a camera. This might be an issue more on single camera devices

0.4 coming soon with camera love for all :heart:

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Hi,

For me on my Nexus 7 2012 (AOSP in 5.0), the motion detection doesn’t trigger :frowning:
But with motion detector from playstore with Tasker and THE amazing android dashboard app you could do the same, it works fine for me … if somebody is interessed in.

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0.4 is up. I think its time to create a new release thread shortly :slight_smile: Enjoy!

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Give 0.4 a shot :slight_smile:

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An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed.

Slight hiccup thanks to muse duties, uninstall and reinstall has all working well in both Android 4.4.4 Cyanogen and 5.1.1 Dirty Unicorns on Nexus 2012.

Prevent screen from sleeping seems to be on by default in 4.4.4 but I may have bumped it - I’m going to wipe the tablet later today and I’ll double check. It definitely wasn’t on with 5.1.1

Upgrading from 0.2 to 0.4 on Android 5.1.1 failed but uninstall/reinstall did the trick.

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Ok. Apparently I suck at upgrades. I don’t think keep screen on should be a default, but the wifi one now is

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Just tried on clean install - it does seem to be on, however…

If I turn keep screen off and scroll down to mqtt settings then back up it goes back to on again. If I turn it off and back out of settings then go back in it sticks, but if I scroll within settings it reverts to on - only 4.4.4

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Yeah thanks i’ll try it :wink:

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I did notice a quirk in the emulator on only one configuration that I just presumed was the emulator being weird but looks like there’s something to it. Noted for looking into that…

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“There is a difference between signed and unsigned APK files. Most likely you had an unsigned on there previously. You just need to delete the unsigned before you install the signed version. How this can be accomplished varies on the exact version, but in general, go on the emulator to settings-> application, long click your app, and delete/remove/uninstall it.”

Yah, I’d say its attributable to you messing around with debug builds with me… going to check that one off for now :slight_smile:

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Sorry - I didn’t mean this was a problem. I had v.4 debug already installed and release version was v.4 too. (I think.) Same version more or less.

The v2 I already had installed was possibly the one from the original post as that tablet was android 5.1. (Soon to be downgraded now I have a working solution with KitKat.)

Similarly, settings is not a problem and current release is now my daily driver. All going great, just need to find some time to build dashboards.

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Started up a thread in 0.4’s honor, also to try to get more people’s attention lol

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I want to wake up my windows tablet screen when someone enter my room.

I think mqtt can handle this or something else, can you guys give me some ideas?

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Does anyone know if the WallPanel project is still alive? It’s peaked my interest and now eant to look into putting a tablet on my wall :slight_smile:.