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Blackymas / NSPanel_HA_Blueprint

This allows you to configure your complete NSPanel via Blueprint with UI and without changing anything in the code
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Removing not required Button and Entity pages from display #946

Closed tgessendorfer closed 6 months ago

tgessendorfer commented 1 year ago

It would be great if one could en- and disable Entity and Button pages to be shown on the display. Mostly I only use a sub portion of the 4 possible pages but the dots on the screen for any non-used pages is still shown with empty pages. It would be great to have a possibilty to remove or disable non used pages.

deejaybeam commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/Blackymas/NSPanel_HA_Blueprint/issues/868

denes44 commented 1 year ago

Since the contents of the entity and button pages are updated dynamically when loading the page, it makes sense to only leave 1 page in the HMI file, and track which page we are on with a variable. That way, there are no limits on the number of the pages, it can be defined in the blueprint (it can be more than 4, or less).

edwardtfn commented 1 year ago

I've played a bit with this and as I mentioned in #868, the hardest was to find a replacement for those page indicators. I've tried with other circles, but it didn't looked that good, but I'm sure we can find a nice solution for that. I will see if I can find some time for this after the next release (already quite big). But any help will be welcome. 😉

denes44 commented 1 year ago

Sure, doing the circles can be troublesome, because if you do it for 1-8 pages it would be 35 images (although small images). Displaying the current page with a number is certainly easier.

edwardtfn commented 1 year ago

I was thinking more about using circle shaped chars (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unicode_circle_shaped_symbols). That could be a simple string quite easy to create based on the number of pages and the current page, but I still have to investigate it to find something that looks nice. My first tests some time ago wasn't giving me as good results as the current implementation. I wanna avoid numbers as that could mean additional localization needs.

denes44 commented 1 year ago

Oh, yes, that's a good idea, doing it with font.

edwardtfn commented 6 months ago

It is still pending more tests, but this is implemented in `dev´ and hopefully will be released with v4.3 soon. I've implemented only for button pages and for entities pages for now, as I wanna review the whole weather pages in the near future.

I'm closing this for now to clean-up my backlog, but please feel free to add comments or to reopen-it if the new solution is not solving the issue.

edwardtfn commented 6 months ago

Hi, have you got a chance to try the solution for this currently in beta? If so, please let me know if that was effective.