Text box on a Home Assistant dashboard.
For use of sending text to wall panels by imputing text on a HA dashboard input text box or using “input text: set” as a action in a automation.
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Using “input text: set” as a action in a automation.
I love using our panels and the feature we get the most use of is the “message box” { I call them pop ups } for notifications and reminders. They Come in handy because when Barbara is working she does not pay much attention to her phone.
Turning on backlight and A pop up on the openhasp screen between two of her computer monitors gets her attention.
How to:
Using Helpers create a input Text box
{input_text.HA_panel_popup_text_box}
to put on HA dash board So I can easily display a pop up message on All dash boards. The automation then deletes the Message box when the Text box is cleared.
First Create A text box using Yaml or Helpers and add to a Dashboard.
Automation:
This automation will use the “text” from the text box and Publish to panel(s) and turn on the back light to all panels.
In the payload_template you will see
{"page":0,"id":75,"obj":"msgbox","bg_color":"white","text_color":"Red","text":"
{{ states("input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box") }}
","options":["Close"]}
,Page"0"` is all pages and “id”:75 is the ID of the Message box so if you have other message boxes give them another ID so the will not be overwritten or cleared by this automation.
In the last part of the automation will Delete the message box (popup) when the Text box is empty
- condition: state
entity_id: input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box
state: ""
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: hasp/plates/command/p0b75.delete
FULL AUTOMATION
alias: Openhasp POPup text box
description: >-
display popup on all openhasp panels the Dashboard text box data. Clear popup
if text box is Empty or cleared. popupID#75
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box
id: text
enabled: true
condition: []
action:
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: hasp/plates/command/jsonl
payload_template: >-
{"page":0,"id":75,"obj":"msgbox","bg_color":"white","text_color":"Red","text":"
{{ states("input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box") }} ","options":["Close"]}
- type: turn_on
device_id: 88b53314416b4ce885e73c349b11de1b
entity_id: light.desk1_backlight
domain: light
brightness_pct: 100
- type: turn_on
device_id: ff2aa76f6ac729f1e9e243fa22ce23e1
entity_id: light.plate35_backlight
domain: light
brightness_pct: 100
- type: turn_on
device_id: e8173c788aa326e57adbc645b2d954c8
entity_id: light.desk_backlight
domain: light
- condition: state
entity_id: input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box
state: ""
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: hasp/plates/command/p0b75.delete
mode: single
Automation to automatically Clear Text box in Homeassistant when someone Closes message box popup.
alias: clear popup box
description: >-
Deletes Message box when "Close" is selected on any Openhasp Panel message
box.
trigger:
- platform: mqtt
topic: hasp/desk1/state/p0b75
payload: "{\"event\":\"up\",\"val\":0,\"text\":\"Close\"}"
- platform: mqtt
topic: hasp/desk/state/p0b75
payload: "{\"event\":\"up\",\"val\":0,\"text\":\"Close\"}"
- platform: mqtt
topic: hasp/plate35/state/p0b75
payload: "{\"event\":\"up\",\"val\":0,\"text\":\"Close\"}"
condition: []
action:
- service: input_text.set_value
data:
value: ""
target:
entity_id: input_text.ha_panel_popup_text_box
mode: single
more popups
Here is a little more about my openhasp wall panel setups
Openhasp on a Lanbon L8 and WT32-SC01 Plus