WallPanel for Android Redux

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thanks for that :slight_smile:

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First of all, thanks a lot for a great app!
When I first installed it a couple of months ago I remember I tried the TTS functionality. Now that I actually plan to use it I can’t get it to work.

In the documentation it says:

WallPanel subscribes to topic wallpanel/[baseTopic]/command

  • Default Topic: wallpanel/mywallpanel/command

But I suspect that it should say just [baseTopic]/command, since “wallpanel/mywallpanel” is exchanged with “[baseTopic]” for sensor messages.

I send a manual message from the MQTT Publish page of Home Assistant. I verified that the message is published as expected with a separate MQTT Client.

Wallpanel publishes on the MQTT Server but I cannot get it to respond to anything, am I missing something?

Base topic is set to

taba101/

I send:

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Does it work from here? Since this works fine for me. My base path is “homeassistant/wallpanel/”

p.s. here is an example from an automation:

    - service: mqtt.publish
      data_template:
        topic: 'homeassistant/wallpanel/command'
        payload: "{'speak':'This works just fine for me'}"

Just make sure you use “” around the payload otherwise you mix ’ with " and that can get pretty funky.

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Also if you want to feel like a dummy and think the app doesn’t work correctly because the screen when it goes dark it comes back up because it detects motion…

That is the time to remove the device from a place where the reflection is pretty clear. Since the reflection on my table was so bright, when it goes off the motion detects a major change and it goes on again. Reminder to myself, don’t place it near a surface when testing it out.

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Thank you!
I all my copiying and modifiying I had managed to start the string with ’ and end it with ", I thought I double checked everything but I overlooked that possibility! Working great now

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Silly question how the hell do you get backinto the settings once you’ve done the intial setup?

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Hit back! :slight_smile:

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Thanks must have tried everything else lol

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I have an issue with an iframe lovelace card, not saving cookies. An initial test would appear that when opened in a browser cookies are correctly saved, but on the same tablet in wallpanel they are not.

Anybody know of a solution?

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Hi @thanksmister ,

would you consider adapting the SSL handling a bit?

I have HA running with a self-signed cert and wallpanel shows a validation error on every app start.
Now, this would normally not be such a big issue, but I’m running Wallpanel on an older Fire HDX tablet and all apps showing the HA frontend wind up crashing after some time (maybe OOM) - especially when gifs or animations are present (ads, weather widgets, etc.).

So I use MacroDroid to restart the wallpanel app from time to time which seems to work. THe SSL check is the only part that is preventing this from working out-of-the-box as only the ssl dialog message is displayed. For testing purposes I commented the part out in the app source code and the whole restart app thing works fine then.

So, If you can’t have a setting to turn of SSL validation alltogether (saw your comment in one of the github issues), could you track for which hosts the ssl verification message has been displayed already and prevent it from being shown several times for the same host? That’s also the way the Ariela app handles this.

Thanks
Jochen

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Hi! I have an issue regarding the lovelace page, i cant get it to load in the app. i get connection refused. if i trie Chrome on the two devices i have tried on it works but not on wall panel or its own web app. is there a way to fix this? i have the latest version from playstore. currently im showing my HADashboard page and its working but i want to switch to my loveace page.

BR Mathias

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Probably an issue with iframes and Googles web rendering capabilities.

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Hi,
I am having some troubles with mqtt. The battery and other sensor data is published well for the first 1 or 2 hours but after that all goes silent. Sorry I don’t have logs or something to show, I don’t know is there a way to find them in my tablet.

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AFAIK the only thing you can post is all messages received by your mqtt broker.
The problem is there are many reasons apart from issues with Wallpanel’s mqtt that might lead to your problem - the main culprit is WiFi that sometimes goes down.
You can check connectivity status of your tablet by HA ping sensor and also monitor state of REST interface by enabling REST API and creating HA RESTful sensor requesting wallpanel’s state string every 30 seconds or so.

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I used to have automations to turn of plug when the battery is full or fpr motion detection but now with mqtt publishing goes silent after 1-2 hours, none of them are working. I am not sure if these sensors are also available as REST api.

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It seems like they are not.
Perhaps you could create a Feature request?

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Just about to start trying out WallPanel and I’m curious about the screensaver functionality. Is there a possibility to have more than just the clock on the screen? Perhaps using some data from HA to display items on the screen when idle?

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Thanks for sharing your ideas and productions, people like you make our community strong.

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I’m having the following issue with my Lenovo E10 Android tablet: when I select the front camera, after 1 sec, the image goes dark. I read the solution about lowering the FPS, but even at 1, nothing changes.

However, when I shine my flashlight into the camera, it keeps working. When I remove it, after 1 sec it darkens. It seems light correction darkens the image to the point where it’s unusable.

Any idea if/how this can be resolved? The provided ‘snapdragon camera’ app works.

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The battery sensor data is published, the issue you are having is with your network connection disconnecting and the MQTT loses connection to your MQTT broker. There is an open issue about this on the Github project page if you want to see what others are saying.