My new PI screen Topic is solved

[bluepi]

After playing with Domoticz for sometime and expanding on it use around the house I decided I needed another way to interact with it.

Guests, kids, other half etc...

So I bought a raspberry pi touchscreen with the idea of mounting it in the wall in each room. So I played with lots of the web designs on here and I could not find one that did exactly what I wanted. Got loads of inspiration from many of the other projects here, before deciding on the best approach for my mind....

Only gets the devices from the roomplanner (seems easier to organise)
Displays on a small screen without slider bars
Template so room to room changes are easy (organise IDX, Names etc)

So started in the Living Room.

So I bit the bullet and built one (Mainly in PHP)

Beta 1

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Still got lots of work and loads of inspiration from many of the other projects...

Still stuck on refreshing each div in a nice way and the best way to check devices states. Dont like a refresh query to check every x seconds kind of leaning towards a lua script to update the php server if there is a change and a full check every 10 mins or so, from the PHP server to compare the JSON. But i dont know if there is a better cleaner way, any help or suggestions?

The only downside seems to be that I need a dedicated PI to run all the PHP

I know before anyone points it out I need a better power supply (old phone cable is the fault with the pi complaining about power... Its only temporary).

I would prefer to have this native within Domoticz

Custom roomplan .www where all the devices are nativly treated and then its just about writing HTML/CSS/JS etc per room and adding the device code in. This way all the hard bits have been done and its just about custom design...

[blackdog65]

Very nice!
Any chance you could share the code? I'm sure many of us would like to copy and mod for our own uses

Sean

[bluepi]

More than happy to.

The code is a real mess at the moment (lots of hardcoded sections). Soon as I have cleaned it and made it vaguely legible to anyone else trying to read it then I will stick it on Github...as long as no one laughs at my attempt of JS.

As I have said; still stuck on the best way to refresh the states as I don't like checking every x seconds - seems untidy.
so if anyone has a better idea..

[pepijn]

Did you consider using MQTT for your updates? It might only be a good trigger to update the divs but can also be used to grab the values from


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[Egregius]

Why would you need a dedicated Pi for the PHP?
It would be easier to update code, that's for sure.
My floorplan refreshes every 5 seconds, more than fast enough for most situations. That's even double as fast as the normal web ui wich refreshes every 10 seconds. On smartphones and tablets you don't even notice the refresh, only on computer in Firefox there's a small line at the bottom during the refresj.
Because my page only grabs 3,5KB for each load I don't look for another solution (like ajax call's to refresh divs etc).

[Fainted]

Looks very good bluepi keep up the good work and we hope to try it out soon

[bluepi]

Why would you need a dedicated Pi for the PHP?
It would be easier to update code, that's for sure.
My floorplan refreshes every 5 seconds, more than fast enough for most situations. That's even double as fast as the normal web ui wich refreshes every 10 seconds. On smartphones and tablets you don't even notice the refresh, only on computer in Firefox there's a small line at the bottom during the refresj.
Because my page only grabs 3,5KB for each load I don't look for another solution (like ajax call's to refresh divs etc).

Because I plan to have one per room so about 10 in total it make more sense (to me anyway) to have one point of source.. Code updates/changes, service updates etc..

Spent a huge amount of time on JS updating the DIVs and really improved the performance now.. even doing an update every 5 seconds its very impressive..

@Egregius ... It was seeing how some of your site worked inspired me to try writing this.. Must admit the JS has been a learning curve but once I got my head around the format I have been quite enjoying it..

Just adding all the kodi code (pull album,video art, % played and play/pause/stop function) in so it down to a single load page for everything (prefer to write everything out separately when rough)

Still trying to finish the photo overlay function (when inactive) however the setting function is all finished and about as easy as I can make it so it should be easy for anyone else to get up and running (well once they have installed PHP)..

So pages that are now done ish...

Frontpage
Heating Control
Traffic
News
Weather


Hoping to have a release on Github in the next couple of weeks as I can only work on this in the evenings.

@pepijn I did think about MQTT but I wanted to keep this as simple as possible and I still might come back to this as I do think this will be the best method in the long run. MQTT is something I keep coming back to and then abandoning

Still trying to get Google Music and photos streaming down

However just ordered an Echo Dot to play with .. So I might not go down this route if the voice thing works better for the family ... and just put this in the hallway.

[blackdog65]

Hi bluipi,
any progress?
Just a quick bump as some of us are gagging to try this

Sean

[codesnipper]

Hello, any progress on it? Did you put it on github?

[JuanUil]

really nice!!

[bluepi]

Sorry...

Sort of got caught up with other things and have not had the time to get back to this...(mainly my Car)

I will see if I can spend some time cleaning out the hardcode and upload ASAP.

Mostly its all done so a few evenings this week... Now that I have canceled the echo and google home is not coming to the UK anytime soon

The code is fixed to a pi screen so it is 800x600 but it would not take much effort to change the scale (except the odd place where I hardcoded the CSS)

[Slinkos]

I woud very much like to see your code!

[Fainted]

If I may have som suggestions before I even have seen the finished product
I would love to have a tab for the security panel in the same style as you have done everything else, so that you could have your screen next to the dorr for seting the alarm when you go out.
Could it be possible to add a tab so you can have yor google calender in this frontpage?
I will use an 10 inch tablet or maybe an 13" inch tablet so as you said, if 'ts easy to change it would be awesome
Once again keep up the good work, looking forward to try it!

[jaminben]

Is this still in development?... I would very much like to try it (no matter what state it's in).

Looks really nice.

[bsmeding]

Yes me too!

looks very nice, could you post the code on github or similar so we can try it ourself?

[jaminben]

I'm not a coder but I knocked this (complete rip off of OP idea) up in a couple of days whilst on Christmas holidays.... it's only a single page so far and I'm not sure how much further I want to take it but thought I'd share and get some feed back.

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[denisj]

Hi,
is there any news please ?
Thanks
Denis

[SilentSimon]

Hi,
is there any news please ?
Thanks
Denis

Same bump here