Feature Requests

[mminehan]

wposner Are you still actively working on this project? I use it every day and still think it's brilliant.

Sound would be awesome.
And the ability to specify font color in the device tile. Something like:
<hstextstatusdevice params="ref: 1075, foreground: 'fg-white', color: 'bg-darkBlue', locationIsVisible: false"></hstextstatusdevice>

Cheers, Marty

[mminehan]

Has there been any work on adding sounds? Like tile clicks?
And Sputnik's smooth animated tiles? I really like the way his thermostat tile works.
Thanks, Marty.

[wposner]

Has there been any thoughts on adding sound? Specifically sounds for tile clicks?

It would nice to give the user some sort of feedback.

Marty

I'll take a look at that! Shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

[mminehan]

Sound?

Has there been any thoughts on adding sound? Specifically sounds for tile clicks?

It would nice to give the user some sort of feedback.

Marty

[Broes]

Web image

The staticimage widget can do that. You just need to give it the URL. But the weather widget does pull in the associated forecast image.

Thanks, I assumed that <staticimage> could only be used for images in the html folder.
I did feed <staticimage> with the url but apparently I am doing something wrong because I am getting a blue rectangle.
The parameter refresh isn't needed I suppose?

Not really a forecast picture but this is an example for an image on my weatherpage.

<staticimage id="Picture" params="imageName: 'http://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/map/page/weer/actueel-weer/neerslagradar/WWWRADAR_loop.gif', refresh: 10000"></staticimage>

http://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/map/page/wee...RADAR_loop.gif

[wposner]

In addition for the media tile(s) herebye the "Control" and "Current Title" off the Squeezebox player.
It would be nice to control and see what is playing in HSMetro.

(For the picture of HSMetro I saved the picture of the URL in the "Current Title" to the HTML dir.)


Player 3 Control:

{"Name":"HomeSeer Devices","Version":"1.0","Devices":[{"ref":357,"name":"Player 3 Control","location":"Squeezebox","location2":"Keuken","value":0,"status":"","device_type_string":"Player Control","last_change":"\/Date(1433623697429)\/","relationship":4,"hide_from_view":false,"associated_devices":[354],"device_type":{"Device_API":32,"Device_API_Description":"Music API","Device_Type":3,"Device_Type_Description":"Player Control","Device_SubType":0,"Device_SubType_Description":""},"device_image":"","UserNote":"","UserAccess":"Any","status_image":""}]}

Player 3 Current Title:

{"Name":"HomeSeer Devices","Version":"1.0","Devices":[{"ref":368,"name":"Player 3 Current Title","location":"Squeezebox","location2":"Keuken","value":0,"status":"Glory Days by Radio Veronica 96.3 (Pop)","device_type_string":"Player Additional Status","last_change":"\/Date(1442767050708)\/","relationship":4,"hide_from_view":false,"associated_devices":[354],"device_type":{"Device_API":32,"Device_API_Description":"Music API","Device_Type":2,"Device_Type_Description":"Player Additional Status","Device_SubType":3,"Device_SubType_Description":"Player Current Title"},"device_image":"","UserNote":"","UserAccess":"Any","status_image":"http://cdn-albums.tunein.com/gn/50R1MPHTCRg.jpg"}]}

Agreed. I am definitely working on it. I'm just slammed with work right now. I definitely hate having to chance UIs to control music, so it's on my todo list.

[wposner]

Is it possible to create a widget for showing an image from the internet?
It would be nice for weatherforecast etc.

The staticimage widget can do that. You just need to give it the URL. But the weather widget does pull in the associated forecast image.

[Broes]

Web image

Is it possible to create a widget for showing an image from the internet?
It would be nice for weatherforecast etc.

[Broes]

Squeezebox

In addition for the media tile(s) herebye the "Control" and "Current Title" off the Squeezebox player.
It would be nice to control and see what is playing in HSMetro.

(For the picture of HSMetro I saved the picture of the URL in the "Current Title" to the HTML dir.)


Player 3 Control:

{"Name":"HomeSeer Devices","Version":"1.0","Devices":[{"ref":357,"name":"Player 3 Control","location":"Squeezebox","location2":"Keuken","value":0,"status":"","device_type_string":"Player Control","last_change":"\/Date(1433623697429)\/","relationship":4,"hide_from_view":false,"associated_devices":[354],"device_type":{"Device_API":32,"Device_API_Description":"Music API","Device_Type":3,"Device_Type_Description":"Player Control","Device_SubType":0,"Device_SubType_Description":""},"device_image":"","UserNote":"","UserAccess":"Any","status_image":""}]}

Player 3 Current Title:

{"Name":"HomeSeer Devices","Version":"1.0","Devices":[{"ref":368,"name":"Player 3 Current Title","location":"Squeezebox","location2":"Keuken","value":0,"status":"Glory Days by Radio Veronica 96.3 (Pop)","device_type_string":"Player Additional Status","last_change":"\/Date(1442767050708)\/","relationship":4,"hide_from_view":false,"associated_devices":[354],"device_type":{"Device_API":32,"Device_API_Description":"Music API","Device_Type":2,"Device_Type_Description":"Player Additional Status","Device_SubType":3,"Device_SubType_Description":"Player Current Title"},"device_image":"","UserNote":"","UserAccess":"Any","status_image":"http://cdn-albums.tunein.com/gn/50R1MPHTCRg.jpg"}]}

[olag00]

Any luck with the media tile? For now, I have to use two interfaces when watching TV/Movie...I press the "Watch Movie" tile, it turns projector/Lights/receiver etc on, then I have to change over to the Kodi app to control Kodi. Not a huge problem but I have a quest to use only one interface for ease of use for other guests.

Also, I tried setting volume up tiles but it is a little tedious to cycle through commands, find volume up, wait 3 secs, cycle through to volume up, wait 3 secs, etc to raise the volume a couple of decibels...Would it be possible to create a dimmer type device but not have it skip 10 steps? Atleast that is what my light dimmers do. Not sure if there is a parameter I can set or not.

Otherwise this interface has been very reliable!

[JimBob]

Yes. This was only for the webpage widget tile. Shortening the delay for tiles that work with switches tends to provide a less than ideal user experience.

For some maybe ;-) Fair dos, can live with that.

Cheers.

[wposner]

Is this only for the 'site' tile?

I tried adding a delay=1 (ms?) to the hsdevice tile but it still seems to delay by 3 seconds before making a change (this is with a two-state device)

Yes. This was only for the webpage widget tile. Shortening the delay for tiles that work with switches tends to provide a less than ideal user experience.

[JimBob]

I'll add a delay parameter to the widget so you can override the default value--This is Done!

Is this only for the 'site' tile?

I tried adding a delay=1 (ms?) to the hsdevice tile but it still seems to delay by 3 seconds before making a change (this is with a two-state device)

[JimBob]

Is it possible to create a tile type that shows a camera stream? Or even to take snapshots every 1 second when selected? That would be really good.

[olag00]

Also, if you take a glance at the "user guide" thread from the Kodi plugin:

http://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=161821

You will see he has a web based control system. When you click the "movies" tab on the web interface it grabs all the thumbnails of the movies and you can scroll through them to select what movie is to be played. Not sure if there is something that can be called knowing this to do similar or not.

The other way I was thinking about would be to make a <webpage> tile that can be 4x4 or larger and not have it "launch" the webpage application but have a browser open inside the tile and then I could point the webpage to use the Kodi plugin interface....