Navigate to other (sub)dashboard

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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A few days ago i started to play with the HaDashboard,
and now i got a tablet on the wall displaying a lot of info. Great!!

Then i found in the dosc that its posible to switch to a other dashboad for a X given secconds and then back to de original.
This is perfect: i would like to show my front door cam for 10 secconds when the doorbel rings.
and after the 10 secconds return to the default page.

  • I created a second dashboard page only displaying one big cam widget.
  • Created a python script for listen to the doorbell state change
  • And created an “alias: Navigate” on the main dashboard page.

On the doorbell trigger the script runs (tested it with logging) but the dashboard does not change to the cam page?!
What am I doing wrong??

main.dash:

alias: Navigate
sequence:
  - event: showcam
    event_data:
    command: navigate
    timeout: 10
    target: cam

tigger.py:

import appdaemon.appapi as appapi

class trigger(appapi.AppDaemon):

  def initialize(self):
     self.log("Trigger script start")
     self.listen_state(self.doorbel, "switch.deur_bel", new = "on")

  def doorbel(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
     self.log("DOORBEL!!!")
     self.fire_event("showcam")
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you need to create a custom event in HASS with the name showcam if i am correct.
but there is a much easier way.

in stead of using the line:

self.fire_event("showcam")

you can use

     self.dash_navigate("cam", 10)
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Works like a charm! Thanks…:rofl:

Didn’t find anything about this in de docs, how did you know this?

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i thought it would be in the docs. @aimc ??
but i have insider information anyway. :wink:

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It was meant to be a secret @ReneTode - now everyone knows!

Actually for some reason it didn’t make it into the docs - I’ll add it.

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I also wanna use this hidden feature :sunglasses: Can u please updat the docs

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o boy, the cat is out the bag. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Can you share the code… I cannot get it to navigate when outside motion is triggered.

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maybe you better share your code so we can tell you what isnt right in your code :wink:

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This is the code i am trying -

import appdaemon.appapi as appapi

class trigger(appapi.AppDaemon):

  def initialize(self):
     self.log("Trigger script start")
     self.listen_state(self.alrtcamera, "binary_sensor.es_motion_sensor", new = "on")

  def alrtcamera(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
     self.log("ALRTCAMERA!!!")
     self.dash_navigate("/camera", timeout=10, ret="/main_panel")

This is the main_panel.dash -

alias: Navigate
sequence:
- event: alrtcamera
  event_data:
    command: navigate
    timeout: 10
    target: camera

Still reading through all the docs…

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self.dash_navigate("camera", timeout=10, ret="main_panel")

and main_dash should be a working dashboard (with only widgets and layout, so lose the navigate command)
and camara should also be a working dashboard

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Thank Rene.Got it working and just finished reading your AppDaemon_for_Beginner :slight_smile: Learned a lot and waiting for more

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