I feel like this might be a silly Q - but I’m trying to figure out how to control the screen wake/sleep status of an NSPanel Pro via automations.
I have the panel set up and sideloaded seaky’s tools, and have a dashboard displaying via fkb, so that part’s all finally working as expected. MQTT is also configured and displays as connected.
However, I don’t have any devices/entities in Home Assistant that correspond to the NSPanel, so haven’t figure out how to send commands. The NSPanel Pro Tools Application github has mention of a Command topic.
Is there something obvious I’m missing to add the device so I can send sleep/wake commands to it?
It will be added in 2.2 version.
You could use Android Debug Bridge integration to send a wake-command to the nspanel, but it’s really slow sometimes. (up to 15 seconds)
Did you already found a solution for this? I would like to wake up the screen on my nspanel pro when opening the door of my bathroom. I already have an automation where I activate the led in my bathroom but I also like to wake up the screen of my nspanel pro.
Any advice?
I haven’t revisited this on my NSPanel yet, but I got it working on a standard android tablet so I’m assuming the NSPanel will be similar (just haven’t found the time to play with it yet)
For my tablet, I have the screen timeout set to 2 minutes. To wake the screen, I’ve made sure the home assistant companion app was installed on the tablet so that the android device showed up as controllable (and the app has access to system settings). I then used the Notification Commands to send command_screen_on to wake up the table when the motion sensor by my front door is triggered. I imagine I could do the same for my NSPanel when, say, music starts playing (since it’s currently mostly displaying album art and playback status)
@KrisHoobie not sure if you ever figured this out, but for anyone else that also runs across this, I finally got it working. Not sure if related, but the other day I installed the current version (v2.3.3) of the NSPanel Pro Tools app on the device. I still couldn’t seem to get Zigbee working correctly (the device showed in z2m but didn’t expose any controls). But I remembered I also had set up MQTT over wifi when I had first installed the the device.
By going into the Settings > Devices & Services > MQTT integration directly, I was able to see 2 different devices for the NSPanel - one the z2m version with nothing, and a 2nd version has 15 entities exposed (which I’m assuming is the wifi MQTT connection). This Device page includes controls to sleep/wake the display that I can also use in other integrations - so problem finally solved.