maybe easier to use Dashboard replacement

[ciberyan]

Hello
I undersand also the feeling
You do a very nice job already
for the documentation, it's up to us to fight a little bit
Versionning can be just a time stamp for example
keep the good job running easy

[chromo23]

Thank you for the nice words and I really appreciate that!

Versionning can be just a time stamp for example

For the versioning i now use the date as suggested. It appears when you hover over the info button.

On the other hand it may help to put at least a few ideas in writing, so there is some backlog of intentions for others to read.

Thanks also for your sharing your ideas TD-er. Right now i kind of using this thread as a kind of notebook, where you can find the latest changes and hopefully soon, based on that I'll complete the documentation on GitHub.

So long, have a nice weekend!

[chromo23]

Hello dear ESPeasier,

I added today pushbuttons to easyfetch because i was in need for it. I have a project, where i need to control a motor and having pushbuttons for this is quite useful.

- create a dummy device which name includes "pButtons" and every value becomes a virtual pushbutton (add "&<unitnumber>" to the valuename and it sends the event directly to another node)
- start pressing a button creates an event based on the this: <valuename> + "Event=1"
- letting go of the button creates an event like this: <valuename> + "Event=0"

Here the visual howto:

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[chromo23]

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[TD-er]

Very nice!

[chromo23]

Hi,
because nobody asked for it, i honestly don’t know why i did this (because i actually don’t need it) and because Tasmota has one too, i present the neoPixel-Slider.
I actually had a 10KByte limit for the file size....i landed at almost 10,3KByte So no features anymore (except they have to do with accessibility)

- name a dummy device something that has "neoPixel" in it and you can create slider for hsv values. Name a value either "h", "s", or "v"
- You can choose wich slider you need. You can use all three or just one.
- An event looks like this: <devicename(e.g. "neoPixel1")>+"Event="+ <h-value> + <s-value> + <v-value>

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Edit: Code Example:

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On neoPixelEvent Do
  NeoPixelAllHSV,%eventvalue1%,%eventvalue2%,%eventvalue3%
Endon

[Ath]

That looks great!

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

[chromo23]

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

No, sorry...
I thought HSV (or HSL) is much more common for these kind of slider that´s why i did it.
I only have space for one kind of slider with my freshly self imposed feature freeze...
But for you i could lift it.
Or if you say, the RGB slider would be better suited for controlling neopixel i change exchange it with the other one.

[TD-er]

It should only be a very simple matrix multiplication to get from one color space to the other.

[Ath]

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

No, sorry...
I thought HSV (or HSL) is much more common for these kind of slider that´s why i did it.

It was more an information request than a feature request. I probably won't be using that as IMHO the HSV is very usable, and we have conversions (both directions) available (though not available from rules, I think).

I only have space for one kind of slider with my freshly self imposed feature freeze...
But for you i could lift it.
Or if you say, the RGB slider would be better suited for controlling neopixel i change exchange it with the other one.

Don't lift that code-freeze just for this, please

[chromo23]

IMOPRTANT NOTE!

Since the introduction of side swipe to open the navigation menu, html requests will add up with every swipe which leads to freezes and reboots!
If you have a build like that, please update to the latest version!

[TD-er]

Can't have freezes with the current energy prices...

[chromo23]

Can't have freezes with the current energy prices...

Absolutely! But i am thinking to re add this "feature" in the summer where one can plaster the walls with microcontroller, saving the AC.

[Andrew Mamohin]

Hi!
I read your topic and I realized that this is very difficult for me. Could you write me a file so that it simply shows the values of my kitchen timer in the browser, which is made in ESPEASY?
Just: "XX min XX sec", maybe add another button "stop".
Minutes and seconds, these are the values of Dummy Device: [DI#M] and [DI#S].
This is necessary so that my wife, when working at the computer, can see how much time is left for readiness in the kitchen.

[chromo23]

Hi Andrew,

sorry for answering so late. (I was really sick for a long time and i now start to recover.)
Regarding you question:
Since you store minutes and seconds separately you could name the dummy device "bigVal" instead of "DI" and then the numbers will be displayed next to each other.
A button you can create by adding either a "Switch" device and call it "button" or whatever you want (create it without assigning a gpio) or create a single "dummy" device called "dButtons". and name the value (eg "button" or whatever you want ). Both ways will create a button tile. If you click on this tile it will create an event called (assuming you named the button "button" ) "buttonEvent". This event you can use then in rules:

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On buttonEvent Do
	//put your code to reset the timer in here
Endon

Example:

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Edit:
The interval of easyfetch is two seconds so it will refresh the displayed value only every two seconds. Refreshing the display every second is possible with simply changing the value in the code but could lead to issues in terms of responsiveness of ESPeasy if your device is constantly under heavy load.

[Andrew Mamohin]

Regarding you question:

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how I can change this for myself...



Here is my screen fetch.html.gz.
How can I remove unnecessary elements, and display the necessary elements with the necessary description?

[chromo23]

How can I remove unnecessary elements, and display the necessary elements with the necessary description?

Add an XX the the Device name of Elements you don´t want do display: e.g. "KEY1XX" but keep in mind that you have to change this name everywhere else too... (e.g. in rules).
Than change "DI" to "bigVal" or anything that includes "bigVal" like "bigVal_DI".
This is also explained in the readme here: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easyfetch

Edit: or try only to change the name of "DI" to "bigVal" and see what happens... maybe the other values do not necessarily to be hidden..
And change the number of decimals to 0 for minutes.

Edit2: Unfortunately there is no other way than adding "XX" for hiding devices in easyfetch since the whole thing was written to be "non invasive" to ESPeasy to not add more code and complexity to it. But maybe in the future a checkbox for hiding a tile in the devices settings would be nice.

[chromo23]

A button you can create by adding either a "Switch" device and call it "button" or whatever you want (create it without assigning a gpio) or create a single "dummy" device called "dButtons". and name the value (eg "button" or whatever you want ). Both ways will create a button tile.

If you create a button you can assign a background color for visual feedback depending of the value of the task. If you give it the value 2 it becomes a red tile.
With this you could easily create a blinking tile by alternating the button value from 0 to 2

Rules for that could look like this:

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On timefinished Do
 LoopTimerSet,1,2000
Endon

On Rules#Timer=1 Do
  If [button#State]=0
   TaskValueSet,button,1,2
  Else
   TaskValueSet,button,1,0
  Endif
Endon

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Edit: it´s blinking every 2 second so probably not the best indicator. but i think i will add a real blinking functionality to buttons (e.g. value=3 means blink in blue and value=4 means blink in red)

[trendkill]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

[chromo23]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

Thanks

This should do the trick:

(if "Inversed Logic:" is set the value-name needs to be changed from "State" to "iState")
if you have an old build use "btnState" + ? + "gpio Number" instead (e.g. btnState?12)

[trendkill]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

Thanks

This should do the trick:

(if "Inversed Logic:" is set the value-name needs to be changed from "State" to "iState")
if you have an old build use "btnState" + ? + "gpio Number" instead (e.g. btnState?12)

Works perfectly!!! Thank you very much, I'll use this A LOT!

[trendkill]

Hi! Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider? Like long press to make modification or a requirement to press an unlock icon first.... Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead? To save a variable into a dummy device. Just some ideas.
It's quite easy to press the slider accidentally while forget what was the previous setting
Thanks!!!!!!

[chromo23]

Thanks for your suggestions!
This reminds me again, that i should renew the documentation....i really suck at that.
Instead of doing so i startet another project ...sneak peek: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easy2ntfy

Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead?

For this i already have a solution:

- number input (name a dummy-device "vInput"), enter a number and confirm with "enter" or "click" on the upper part of the tile

https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/dow ... hp?id=7450

Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider?

No, it´s currently not. And right now i see no reason to do so (since it can be done with rules). There is another way to "lock" a slider by disabling it. See here:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/vie ... 886#p61886

Edit: i forgot to mention another functionality of the slider.
If you change the slider value it changes the value in the dummy-device with "taskValueSet" and it also send an extra "event"
e.g.: "taskvalueset,vSlider,1,1023" and "event,slider1Event=1023"
If you just click on the "outer edges" of the slider the event now sends two values (2nd one accessible via "%eventvalue2%") depending on the side of the slider.
e.g. clicking on the left side: "event,slider1Event=0,0"
right side: "event,slider1Event=1023,1"
I don´t know if this helps. I only added this functionality because i needed it for a very special use case...

[trendkill]

Thanks for your suggestions!
This reminds me again, that i should renew the documentation....i really suck at that.
Instead of doing so i startet another project ...sneak peek: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easy2ntfy

Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead?

For this i already have a solution:

- number input (name a dummy-device "vInput"), enter a number and confirm with "enter" or "click" on the upper part of the tile

download/file.php?id=7450

Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider?

No, it´s currently not. And right now i see no reason to do so (since it can be done with rules). There is another way to "lock" a slider by disabling it. See here:
viewtopic.php?p=61886#p61886

Edit: i forgot to mention another functionality of the slider.
If you change the slider value it changes the value in the dummy-device with "taskValueSet" and it also send an extra "event"
e.g.: "taskvalueset,vSlider,1,1023" and "event,slider1Event=1023"
If you just click on the "outer edges" of the slider the event now sends two values (2nd one accessible via "%eventvalue2%") depending on the side of the slider.
e.g. clicking on the left side: "event,slider1Event=0,0"
right side: "event,slider1Event=1023,1"
I don´t know if this helps. I only added this functionality because i needed it for a very special use case...

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too! Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

vInput is perfect,. exactly what I was thinking about! Works better for my case than vSlider.

Got few more questions, if you don't mind:
- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?
- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

Thanks a lot!

[Ath]

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

The Dark mode is a setting in the Tools/Advanced page ("Web light/dark mode" selection option), if it is included in the build. (Excluded in LIMIT_BUILD_SIZE builds, like Collection A..F, Display, Neopixel)

[trendkill]

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

The Dark mode is a setting in the Tools/Advanced page ("Web light/dark mode" selection option), if it is included in the build. (Excluded in LIMIT_BUILD_SIZE builds, like Collection A..F, Display, Neopixel)

Yes I already tried that, but onyl espeasy's web gui changes to dark theme then, your easy fetch stays light.

[Ath]

Easyfetch probably uses the browser or OS setting for dark mode.

[trendkill]

Easyfetch probably uses the browser or OS setting for dark mode.

That's right! Thanks!

[chromo23]

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too!

Thanks.. i actually don´t know if the software for the gateway works. It´s also (for now) for esp8266 only.
I couldn´t test recent changes since i took no hardware with me and already getting withdrawal symptoms...
More information about this will follow as soon as i am home but for now don´t expect too much of it.

Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

Note, that "easy2ntfy" is not for notifications. It is a combination of hardware and software that enables you to use "easyfetch" through the internet without using a vpn.
!It will NOT notify you when your boiler is about to explode!
(But therefore you could use "PostToHttp" and send messages to e.g. ntfy...)

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

@ath gave you already an advice. Does it work for you with changing the system settings? Otherwise i could give you a version with "dark mode only" in a few days if you prefer to use this independently from your system settings.

- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

No, this is not possible. But i also could put this in a special version too if you want. (But note, that it will be the two-column-mobile view only then.)

EDIT: I think i can later add an option to force the two-column-view in desktop mode

[trendkill]

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too!

Thanks.. i actually don´t know if the software for the gateway works. It´s also (for now) for esp8266 only.
I couldn´t test recent changes since i took no hardware with me and already getting withdrawal symptoms...
More information about this will follow as soon as i am home but for now don´t expect too much of it.

Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

Note, that "easy2ntfy" is not for notifications. It is a combination of hardware and software that enables you to use "easyfetch" through the internet without using a vpn.
!It will NOT notify you when your boiler is about to explode!
(But therefore you could use "PostToHttp" and send messages to e.g. ntfy...)

Ah okey, I checked only ntfy, but that thing will be good for me I think.

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

@ath gave you already an advice. Does it work for you with changing the system settings? Otherwise i could give you a version with "dark mode only" in a few days if you prefer to use this independently from your system settings.

Yes it works, I changed the theme to dark in Brave and easyfetch changed to dark mode too. I like it.

- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

No, this is not possible. But i also could put this in a special version too if you want. (But note, that it will be the two-column-mobile view only then.)

EDIT: I think i can later add an option to force the two-column-view in desktop mode

Don't bother with any special version for me, it's such a small thing. If you add it to the new version, I'll be happy to use that though.

Thanks a lot!