'Dromotica' app for controlling Domoticz from Android

[Scoobydoo]

Luckily I haven't updated domoticz so the old version without the compression is still working fine with your app

[sebas]

Luckily I haven't updated domoticz so the old version without the compression is still working fine with your app

Good to hear that it works with the older versions of Domoticz.

Found the cause of the problem. Normally an hhtp header is set when content is encoded with gzip. I use that header to detect if I need to unzip the response from Domoticz first. However with Domoticz that header is not set. The app because of that thinks it's plain text and thus can't do anything with the response. That's why it does work with the old Domoticz version as that's not returning gzip but plain text.

I've asked Rob if he can add the header to Domoticz.

[sebas]

The update for Dromotica that will fix the issue with the invalid response is on it's way. Just put it in the store.
Found a way to detect the gzip without the header.

[Scoobydoo]

That's a fast fix, excellent. I know everyone really appreciates your hard work.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, excellent app makes domoticz practical to use from my phone and tablet

[Gizmo]

Great, now you just need to take another look at dimmers, when lights are on the app shows off and the other way around

[Skippiemanz]

Great work,

But when the app reloads the status it jumps all the way to the top. Can that be fixed? itsvery annoying.

[Sappien]

I can connect again

A other issue is that on my Android I often get the Dromo App background.. And nothing happens...I've got to restart the app

[andriej]

I've set 'remote' to my dyndns no-ip address, port is high value (like: 23445) and forwarded to 443 by router.
I cannot connect via 'secure' remote option.

[sebas]

I've set 'remote' to my dyndns no-ip address, port is high value (like: 23445) and forwarded to 443 by router.
I cannot connect via 'secure' remote option.

Do you have a valid SSL certificate for the no-ip address as the domain? The certificate does not need to be signed by a trusted CA but the SSL certificate needs to be for the domain name that you are connecting to. Also Domoticz does not come with SSL support built in. You'll need an Nginx proxy for that. When you connect with a browser, does that work?

[andriej]

Do you have a valid SSL certificate for the no-ip address as the domain? The certificate does not need to be signed by a trusted CA but the SSL certificate needs to be for the domain name that you are connecting to. Also Domoticz does not come with SSL support built in. You'll need an Nginx proxy for that. When you connect with a browser, does that work?

It's not 'valid' certificate as its own-signed by RPI.
It came from default installation of Domoticz, as default, on image. It works in browser, just the 'https' is lined-out in Chrome tho.
Do you mean I need to re-do the certificate to match 'no-ip' address?

[sebas]

Do you have a valid SSL certificate for the no-ip address as the domain? The certificate does not need to be signed by a trusted CA but the SSL certificate needs to be for the domain name that you are connecting to. Also Domoticz does not come with SSL support built in. You'll need an Nginx proxy for that. When you connect with a browser, does that work?

It's not 'valid' certificate as its own-signed by RPI.
It came from default installation of Domoticz, as default, on image. It works in browser, just the 'https' is lined-out in Chrome tho.
Do you mean I need to re-do the certificate to match 'no-ip' address?

A SSL certificate that is signed by yourself is still valid. Is just not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. I've disabled the check for that. However the certificate does need to be for the domain you're accessing Domoticz on. So if you've not created a new certificate probably the domain name (no-ip address) is not the same domain as the ssl certificate is for. Creating a new certificate will solve that.

[wizzard72]

In the switch section the dimmers are not working correctly. The are off and the app reports they are on and at full capacity.

[supergroover]

In the switch section the dimmers are not working correctly. The are off and the app reports they are on and at full capacity.

I've that problem too.

[andriej]

A SSL certificate that is signed by yourself is still valid. Is just not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. I've disabled the check for that. However the certificate does need to be for the domain you're accessing Domoticz on. So if you've not created a new certificate probably the domain name (no-ip address) is not the same domain as the ssl certificate is for. Creating a new certificate will solve that.

I've re-done the certificate for specially put-up domain. Still the same (Could not connect...)
In browser from the same phone everything works.
I hope it's not the problem that port (defined in 'port' section) is >5xxxx (high)?

[sebas]

A SSL certificate that is signed by yourself is still valid. Is just not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. I've disabled the check for that. However the certificate does need to be for the domain you're accessing Domoticz on. So if you've not created a new certificate probably the domain name (no-ip address) is not the same domain as the ssl certificate is for. Creating a new certificate will solve that.

I've re-done the certificate for specially put-up domain. Still the same (Could not connect...)
In browser from the same phone everything works.
I hope it's not the problem that port (defined in 'port' section) is >5xxxx (high)?

As long as it's less than 65535 it should be fine however ports above 49151 are Ephemeral ports so that might break things. Try setting one below 49151.
You don't have an error that's something like this: The identity of this website has not been verified. Server's certificate does not match the URL. in Chrome?

Maybe try this: https://www.startssl.com/. You can get a trusted certificate for free here.

[Derik]

Maybe a bug?

A dimmer switch is getting back on.
While he is in domoticz off nicely?

And of course the lamp is off.

[remb0]

what's next? do you have a roadmap?

what I miss:
- energie p1 cable is displayed but no values.
- the blue background earlier mentioned
- nice widgets? (maybe icons or text)
- android push notifications when a doorbell / door of something is open/on/off
- moving item order. when holding an item for x seconds
- open logs of an item (by holding for x seconds you can see historie.
- opening domoticz websites
- cam's

[supergroover]

what's next? do you have a roadmap?

what I miss:
- energie p1 cable is displayed but no values.
- the blue background earlier mentioned
- nice widgets? (maybe icons or text)
- android push notifications when a doorbell / door of something is open/on/off
- moving item order. when holding an item for x seconds
- open logs of an item (by holding for x seconds you can see historie.
- opening domoticz websites
- cam's

+ multiple tabs for the several rooms

[Gizmo]

Save diffrent connections also if you have more than one server to control would be nice.

[sebas]

what's next? do you have a roadmap?

what I miss:
- energie p1 cable is displayed but no values.
- the blue background earlier mentioned
- nice widgets? (maybe icons or text)
- android push notifications when a doorbell / door of something is open/on/off
- moving item order. when holding an item for x seconds
- open logs of an item (by holding for x seconds you can see historie.
- opening domoticz websites
- cam's

Well I'd like to add the weather part to it first so I got all the groups covered and I'm looking into the room support. Maybe also adding the dashboard.
Also there are still some device requests I need to add. I'll look into that p1 cable that's not showing values and the dimmer switch.

After that I wanted to start with the tablet design. I've got some ideas for that that I need to sketch out and see how they work out. That will take some more time to do.
Logs & Graphs, Widgets, NFC, Geofencing, cameras and notifications are also on the list but a bit further down. For the notifications I need help from the core developers as Domoticz needs to start pushing notifications to Google to get them to Dromotica.