WallPanel Help with Home Assistant

Hefford27 · October 20, 2017, 6:12pm

Does anyone know the right command to post a rest command to the wallpanel to change the page, or wake the screen from home assistant.

I have some ideas, but I cant seem to get it working ? any help or ideas ?

Thanks Graham

ReneTode · October 21, 2017, 12:41am

do you talk about an active HAdashboard or about the normal GUI from HA?

on a tablet? you would probably need to install an app for that.

Hefford27 · October 21, 2017, 8:42am

I might have not explained myself very well lol

I have HAdashboard running a bunch or tablets on the wall around the house, using the WallPanel App, that works well.

I read on the Github Page that you can post Rest API commands to the WallPanel App to wake the screen / change the page etc…

github.com

WallPanel-Project/wallpanel-api/blob/master/README.md

# WallPanel Common API

## Commands
Key | Value | Example Payload | Description
-|-|-|-
clearCache | true | ```{"clearCache": true}``` | Clears the browser cache
eval | JavaScript | ```{"eval": "alert('Hello World!');"}``` | Evaluates Javascript in the dashboard
audio | URL | ```{"audio": "http://<url>"}``` | Play the audio specified by the URL immediately
relaunch | true | ```{"relaunch": true}``` | Relaunches the dashboard from configured launchUrl
reload | true | ```{"reload": true}``` | Reloads the current page immediately 
url | URL | ```{"url": "http://<url>"}``` | Browse to a new URL immediately
wake | true | ```{"wake": true}``` | Wakes the screen if it is asleep

* Commands are constructed via valid JSON. It is possible to string multiple commands together:
  * eg, ```{"clearCache":true, "relaunch":true}```
* For REST
  * POST the JSON to URL ```http://[mywallpanel]:2971/api/command```
* For MQTT
  * WallPanel subscribes to topic ```[baseTopic]/command```
    * Default Topic: ```wallpanel/mywallpanel/command```

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I just wondering if anyone has done this from Home Assistant, as I would like build some automation to trigger an event and post the rest command… if you get me ?

Graham

ReneTode · October 21, 2017, 9:01am

oke, so you want help with wallpanel app.
maybe then the HAdashboard forum isnt the best place to ask

i dont use the wallpanel app so i cant help you there.

but you can try it out.

you can create an input boolean that activates an app.
in that app you can use urlopen to send commands to http://[mywallpanel]:2971/api/command

maybe i will try it out to in the near future.