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Blueforcer / awtrix3

Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self made awtrix. Getting started is easy as 1-2-3
https://blueforcer.github.io/awtrix3/
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[FEATURE REQUEST] Send an MQTT message from the device when a text string has finished scrolling. #583

Open gaussey opened 2 months ago

gaussey commented 2 months ago

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I'm using the clock (or will be) as much nicer replacement for my MAX7219 matrix that shows the content of RSS feeds and data scraped from webpages using HomeAssistant as the backend and MQTT broker. Currently with my dumb MAX7219 I calculate when a feed will have finished based on its character length and then send a new MQTT message - Awtrix doesn't allow you to stop a message midscroll that I can tell so I have to set duration to the correct length programatically instead.. It'd be nice if the Awtrix flashed device could send an MQTT message when it had finished scrolling so I could use that as a trigger to send the next stream of text data. If something like this is already available or there's a better way of going about this I'd love to know about it.

Blueforcer commented 2 months ago

Just use “repeat” and set it to 1 instead of using “duration” and awtrix automatically scrolls the whole text the complete length, and then switches to the next app. so you can also just listen to currentApp and when this switches from your app to the other one you send new data.

gaussey commented 2 months ago

But I'm not switching apps - I disabled all the built in apps, I'm just sending multiple MQTT messages one after another with text strings.

Blueforcer commented 2 months ago

I do not assume that such a special feast reuquest will be implemented for this case in the near future. You could create another feed app and have it alternate and always update the app that is not shown.

gaussey commented 2 months ago

Yeah, that's an idea. I was kind of hoping I was missing something obvious but thank you for responding.