WallPanel for Android [Formerly HomeDash]

Ex3mXX · January 13, 2022, 3:08pm

WallPanel is has some great features that i would like to see in the Home Assistant Companion app.
Can’t the Companion app team take this under their wings or add the features to there app.
So sad to see this app disappear if they don’t find a new maintainer.

github.com/thecowan/wallpanel-android

[NEW MAINTAINER REQUEST] Seems that the new maintainer wasn't really a good choice

opened 02:36PM - 12 Jan 22 UTC

thanksmister

help wanted

I was told by @thecowan that he had previously worked for Google, that he was e…xcited to take over this project. However, it's seems that was a mistake on my part. @thecowan has done nothing at all for the project and has let down the community and essentially killed the project. There is no reason for this project to be further maintained by @thecowan. I request the project be either returned to me, including Google Play store listings so that I can find the project a new maintainer. Optionally a new maintainer can fork this project, then break the fork pointing back to this repository. Going forward I will point all references and links to the new forked project. I would like community feedback on this action. -Mister

pepe59 · January 13, 2022, 4:29pm

It’s a great application and I believe it will continue. I have been using it to my satisfaction for several years.

olskar · January 15, 2022, 1:18pm

Hm, I might be blind but can’t find anywhere in the settings to disable the sidebar?

pepe59 · January 15, 2022, 1:24pm

Set it in HA, always hiding the side panel

mannebk · March 8, 2022, 12:32am

Thats only pushing it into the burger symbol in the top bar… so its not deactivated, its just minimized.

cromelex · April 12, 2022, 3:16pm

Is anyone else having an issue with the WallPanel app minimizing but still running in the background? Seems to be happening on m Fire 7. See it was reported ages ago (Jun '20) but I have the issue.

restauffer · April 24, 2022, 12:33am

I have been using Wallpanel on a Fire HD8 for some time. Recently it started having issues, In trying to resolve them I seem to have locked myself out of Wallpanel settings. The icon no longer appears. I remember seeing a setting that said if you used it this would happen. I don’t think I touched that setting. How can I get access to settings again?

Arh · April 24, 2022, 6:55am

You could try touching the bottom right hand corner where the icon should be as you may have just turned the icon off. Or if you have MQTT use this rule

alias: Call wall panel settings
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_button.wallpanel_settings
condition: []
action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: wallpanel/mywallpanel/command
      payload: '{"settings": true}'
mode: single

or you could just publish the command i guess.

restauffer · April 25, 2022, 2:29pm

Thanks for the reply. I tried all corners although the icon used to be in the lower left corner. I do not get a response at any corner. I tried the automation and nothing happened. I think this is because I did not set up MQTT in Wallpanel. Any other ideas?

Thanks

Arh · April 25, 2022, 2:36pm

Just had a look and it says if the settings have been disabled they can only be activated by MQTT.

I would drag down from the top of the screen and get into settings, go to apps and clear all the storage for wall panel and set it up again, I think that will work. if not uninstall it after clearing storage and reinstall. This time don’t disable setting just hide the icon.

restauffer · April 25, 2022, 2:47pm

Thanks. That did it. Now I just need to set it up again. Should be simple (Famous last words ) I will also enable MQTT in case I do another bonehead move.

Arh · April 25, 2022, 7:54pm

Glad to be able to help

nodinosaur · April 26, 2022, 4:35pm

On the tablet/device; in the launcher you can also long press on the application icon which opens a quick menu including a shortcut to settings

lidans5 · June 17, 2022, 1:20pm

I’ll be happy if someone could help, I have three problems:
A. can’t connect properly the camera from the tablet using wallPanel
B. the app logs off from time to time
C. when using motion with camera(for turning lights on at night) the automation doesn’t work well, it turn’s off and on, the light is becoming crazy…

nickrout · June 17, 2022, 11:29pm

More info required.

mrPickles · August 18, 2022, 2:54am

Looks like there has been some [passing of the torch for WallPanel. It looks like the most active repo is this fork: https://github.com/TheTimeWalker/wallpanel-android but I wanted to see what the general consensus was.

manjulapra · September 11, 2022, 2:39am

You seem to be correct. This repo has the most recent commit. But I can’t find the app on Google Play. I downloaded the apk from another site and sideloaded to my Fire tablet. It is working but when it detects motion only the screen lights up. I have to swipe up to see the Dashboard. If anybody had a solution for that, please let me know.

TIA

Arh · September 11, 2022, 8:12am

On the above github page click releases for the latest release, they are not on Google store anymore but all releases are on github.

beanbov · October 5, 2022, 5:45pm

I believe I just found the answer to this, in the settings enable “Prevent Screen Sleep”, this keeps the tablet from going to the lock screen but still allows your dimming and screen settings in Wall panel.

valsergi · October 6, 2022, 5:22pm

Hello, I am having problems with this application, to see if someone can help me. I have detected that this application randomly saturates the mqtt server with many messages and that causes me that Home Assistant crashed and malfunctioned.

Does anyone know what could be happening and how to fix it? Thank you!!!