2026.2. Cant disable Tips & Tricks popup Topic is solved

[Omega]

Hi
Update went well, but how to disable Tips & Tricks popup? Disabling "Show tips on startup" on popup does not work. Disabling Tips & Tricks "Show on startup" in My Profile does not work. After browser reopening, popup is back. Chrome, Firefox both act same way.

[Marathon2010]

Noticing same behaviour. In my browsers used (also Firefox and Chrome) browserdata is cleared after closing the browser. The moment browserdata is not cleared tips and tricks are not shown on next login when they were previously disabled.

[Omega]

At least, I am not alone. My browsers are set to clear browsing data too on close. So, this information is hold in user browser and not in server. That makes kiosk mode usage annoying and this leads to loosening security to keep popup away. That's not a good move...

[zicht]

EDIT : corrected my assumption, the where wrong...

There is indeed a switch in the user profile.
But if your pc in is the settings in a trusted network (you do not login) would that work ?
The switch in the userprofile does not work as intended some how.

Maybe a global switch to disable tips would help.

[Omega]

I haven't investigated this in detail, but if this information is stored in cookies and the website doesn't configure it automatically during the initial visit, then it makes no difference whether you are on a trusted network network or not. It will always start with Tips & Tricks popup after cookies are cleared.

[ophenix]

If you want a quick fix to disable Tips & Tricks popup you can edit the file www/app/app.js

Find this code:

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$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
      if (_tipsShown) return;

Add a return; so the popup never opens:

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$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
      return; // tips startup popup disabled
      if (_tipsShown) return;

If you want to see Tips & Tricks you still can open it in the about menu.

[Omega]

Ty ophenix. That fix works.

[BarryT]

Ah, i was here for another thing on the forum and read this.
If you use docker, you can use this.
I fixed the annoying popup (since we not using the domoticz cache function) some time ago by adding this to the startup script (customstart.sh)
Works perfect.

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#!/bin/bash

F=/opt/domoticz/FIRSTRUN
A=/opt/domoticz/www/app/app.js
M="Startup popup disabled"
T="\$rootScope.\$on('\$routeChangeSuccess', function() {"
[ -f "$F" ] || { python3 -m pip install YOURPACKAGES && touch "$F"; }
[ ! -f "$A" ] && echo "[customstart] ERROR: app.js not found" && exit 0
grep -qF "$M" "$A" && { echo "[customstart] Popup already disabled"; exit 0; }
grep -qF "$T" "$A" || { echo "[customstart] ERROR: target not found"; exit 0; }
cp -n "$A" "$A.original"; sed -i "/\\\$rootScope\\.\\\$on('\\\$routeChangeSuccess', function() {/a\\    return; // $M" "$A"
grep -qF "$M" "$A" && echo "[customstart] Popup disabled" || echo "[customstart] ERROR: patch failed"

[raibisch]

If you want a quick fix to disable Tips & Tricks popup you can edit the file www/app/app.js
...
thank you very much for this fix, it worked fine for me.
...but this is an other place we have to patch at every new Version (the other place is the log interval in 1Minute steps)
A question to the forum: who needs this popup

[gizmocuz]

This is likely caused by your browser. Do you run in private mode?
A lot of settings (and not just this one) is set in the browsers local storage.
Also on each device you can have separate settings this way

And if you decide to clear browser data each time, that is your own issue, not ours.
Why on earth would you do this for Domoticz? At least at a rule to not doing so.
Are we all getting this paranoid ?

[lost]

if you decide to clear browser data each time, that is your own issue, not ours.
Why on earth would you do this for Domoticz? At least at a rule to not doing so.
Are we all getting this paranoid ?

Well, I would not call this being paranoid to have an automatic setting that clears all browser data at close: I'm in this mode since nearly 2 decades, when the web started to become a user profiling nightmare for advertisement purpose.

Understand this is per user/device setting that may have no other choice for storage, but looking FF settings, you may setup URLs for which not to store data locally (a painstaking work, as all blacklists) but that's much easier to clean all on close as the opposite (whitelist URLs allowed to keep local data) looks unimplemented, unfortunately.

IMO, all "paranoïd" users will have settings like do-not-track (that was not taken with good care by many sites, unfortunately) or privacy-control (this one looks more promising, as several US states have setup legal constraints on this and Europe was asked to follow, taking the opportunity of current privacy regulations rework): Maybe this could be used as a user/browser side switch to disable tips?

[gizmocuz]

This has nothing to do with 'tracking'.
A lot more is stored, like your session cookie, and also table / log chart settings
So it is very advisable to leave everything normal for Domoticz and probably other local web services as well.

[lost]

This may be better from a performance POV but as many sites don't work on purpose without setting local data cleaning the bin at the end of web sessions at browser close is IMO for now the best compromise.
This does not block all tracking methods but at least makes it more difficult and possibly not legal. On the opposite, any think you aggree can't fall under legal constraints...