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TheTimeWalker / wallpanel-android

WallPanel is an Android application for Web Based Dashboards and Home Automation Platforms
https://wallpanel.xyz
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[FEATURE] Use Intent to call external screensaver app #137

Closed theothernt closed 2 months ago

theothernt commented 5 months ago

Your feature request. Please describe. Currently, you can set a different webpage URL as the screensaver after a timeout.

I already have a 3rd party screensaver app I'd like to call. I would like a setting to specify an activity to call instead of a URL, for example...

com.neilturner.aerialviews/.ui.screensaver.TestActivity

I would be happy to create a PR for this feature if it sounds like a good idea?

sorryusernameisalreadytaken commented 2 months ago

There is a intent open feature, did you know that. It that not what you need?

Can you try this cmd with mqtt: {"url": "intent:#Intent;launchFlags=0x10000000;component=com.neilturner.aerialviews/.ui.screensaver.DreamActivity;end"}

theothernt commented 2 months ago

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

sorryusernameisalreadytaken commented 2 months ago

I would love to know if that works

theothernt commented 2 months ago

I would love to know if that works

Will do. I had a question back in June from someone who is using Wallpanel and trying to get Aerial Views to work with it.

They appear to be using an Android tablet and with Wallpanel as a Home Assistant dashboard.

Just looking back at the issue, they wanted the screensaver to start after x minutes - I'm not sure a remote MQTT command would help here. I was thinking that Wallpanel would invoke an Intent locally to start the screensaver?