šŸ–¼ļø WallPanel Addon - Wall panel mode for your Home Assistant Dashboards

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Thank you!
Please try the following config:

  cards:
    - type: markdown
      content: LEFT
      wp_style:
        width: calc(50vw - 40px)
        grid-column: 1
    - type: markdown
      content: RIGHT
      wp_style:
        width: calc(50vw - 40px)
        grid-column: 2
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Hey what doorbell are you using?

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Loving this hack, I deleted all my work for make a screensaver on my raspberry.
But I have 2 thing to control.
1 is a little bug, I have a picture element large as like a raspberry screen, now the image as a little blink because it try to stay fit to the monitor. I think because with Wallpanel extension there is a little white line at the bottom of the screen.
2 I want in the night turn off the screen.
I use profile for turn blank the screen at 23.00, but I canā€™t call an automation that turn off my raspberry screen.
It can be utility an Boolean entity that turn on when the screensaver turn on, only for certain profiles
Thanks

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I really like the screensaver and itā€™s working on one of my dashboards.

Two questions:

  1. Does the wallpanel screensaver run on all dashboards by default or how would I add it?
  2. Would it also start if the tablet is showing other ā€œsystemā€ dashboards like the energy dashboard?

I currently have it starting on my rooms dashboard which is called using the lovelace config.

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Hi @bachoo786, sorry for my late reply! I have made this project: https://www.instructables.com/Smart-Doorbell-for-HomeAssistant/ and works fine to me. :blush:

Best regards,
GonƧalo Almeida

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I used gphotos-sync to sync an album I created in Google Photos to a local media directory on my HA device.

You have to go through the process of setting up Google oauth if you havenā€™t done it previously. The set up was kind of buggy (known issue with the authorization process in the repo issues). After installing gphotos-sync, I got stuck at generating the token needed for the actual syncing, so I had to also install it on a separate computer, finish the authorization there, and then copy the gphotos_sync.token file over to my HA device. Once I did that I was able to sync the photos from the specific album I created. I set the directory the album was synced to as my local media_dirs in my configuration.yaml. Now I can add photos to the album in Google Photos, then run the sync locally and theyā€™ll show up in the screensaver slideshow.

I havenā€™t yet set up a job to update it on a schedule, but Iā€™ll get around to that eventually.

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New here tho ty!
i really could have some help on this

You can create an input_boolean helper in HA and set screensaver_entity to this entity id. When the screensaver starts this input_boolean will be set to on and to off when the screensaver stops. It is also possible to start and stop the screensaver by changing this input_boolean.

wallpanel:
  entity_settings:
    - entity:
        input_boolean.screensaver_entity: 'on'
      enabled: true
    - entity:
        input_boolean.screensaver_entity: 'off'
      enabled: false

the toggle button worksā€¦that i madeā€¦
but i think im usung something not correctā€¦
Would ya be kind to give the exact code?

thanks!

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Just create an boolean helper like input_boolean.screensaver_entity.
Then set:

wallpanel:
  screensaver_entity: input_boolean.screensaver_entity

Thatā€™s it.

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Thnx j-a-n.
Fixed it!..Yippppie

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Iā€™ve had this working for a while now and it has its own dashboard. Iā€™m trying to get to Raw Configuration Editor but the 3 dots in the top right only appear very briefly before WallPanel kicks in and they disappear.

Any other way to get to the editor?

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You can append ?wp_enabled=false to the URL.

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Thanks j-a-n. Worked perfectly and love your Addon!

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Hi j-a-n,

thanks for this great integration. I like it and feel like this is the perfect thing for what I have in mind. However, I run into a small problem. I added the code to the raw config of the dashboard. If I go to the dashboard I know it works because it goes into full screen mode. However, it doesnā€™t hide the toolbar and sidebar. I tried a link in a browser with the appendix ?wp_enabled=true. That works. However, I want to use it in the application and over there it only goes into full screen instead of hiding the bars. What am I doing wrong?

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Could you please share your dashboard wallpanel config?

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the entire thing? Or just the WP part?

This is that:

wallpanel:
  enabled: true
  enabled_on_tabs:
    - dashboard-tablet
  hide_toolbar: true
  hide_sidebar: true
  fullscreen: true

At first I had it all the way on the bottom. Now I put it all the way on top of the config.

edit: When I took out the ā€œenabled on tabsā€ part, it worked! I guess I made a mistake there.

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Hey guys!

Iā€™ve been playing around with this addon and absolutely love it. I hid the sidebar and toolbar, but I was wondering how you guys navigate between tabs if you too, did this. I thought about copying part of the home dashboard and add some chips to navigate back. I also found a custom sidebar addon, but I thought maybe Iā€™d find some inspiration here.

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Any way to point the image_url: to a folder on a server?

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Coming back here because I noticed a new HACS integration just now:

I havenā€™t read any of the documentation, but itā€™s possible this could be another path to using a Google Photos album for the screensaver.

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feeling stupid for asking but does this have option to wake up screen on motion using camera on tablet?

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Sounds epic, thanks!

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