2023.9.1: Screen ID, Progress screen, Icon with Text

[andrewjswan]

2023.9.1: Screen ID, Progress screen, Icon with Text

• Added the ability to specify a screen ID - icon_name|screen_id
• Added icon and date output screen - icon_date(iconname, lifetime, screen_time, default_font, r, g, b)
• If pass a screen identifier with the value [day, weekday] like icon_name|day, and a backing icon to icon_clock or icon_date, it will display text.
• Added a screen with the ability to display a progress bar, progress value (-100..100) - icon_screen_progress(iconname, text, progress, lifetime, screen_time, default_font, r, g, b)

Should solve the issues: https://github.com/lubeda/EspHoMaTriXv2/issues/83 https://github.com/lubeda/EspHoMaTriXv2/issues/91 https://github.com/lubeda/EspHoMaTriXv2/issues/92

[andrewjswan]

The screen ID works fine:

      - service: esphome.esp_pixel_clock_icon_screen
        data:
          icon_name: "weather_{{ states('weather.current_weather') | replace('-','_') }}|weather"
...
      - service: esphome.esp_pixel_clock_icon_screen
        data:
          icon_name: "weather_{{ states('weather.forecast_weather') | replace('-','_') }}|forecast"
...

[andrewjswan]

Calling icon_clock and icon_date screens with icon|day works fine.

Found bugs:

• [x] No icon on screen - icon_screen_progress
• [x] Calling icon_clock and icon_date screens with the icon|weekday parameter leads to a reboot (need to redo the algorithm for getting the current day string).
• [x] On icon_clock and icon_date screens for some reason a black triangle (2 points in height and width) is displayed on the icon in the lower left corner.

[andrewjswan]

There is no possibility to test it yet, but in theory the bugs found are fixed.

[lubeda]

what about the docs or a wiki entry for the new features?

[andrewjswan]

Look like all fixed ...

[andrewjswan]

what about the docs or a wiki entry for the new features?

If you can tell me which file to make the changes in, I'll do it tomorrow.

PS: I can't promise screenshots

[andrewjswan]

what about the docs or a wiki entry for the new features?

Added to the readme...

[lubeda]

Hi @andrewjswan,

it is better to have a PR per new feature! In this PR there are so many new things, its hard to check them. But i will merge this PR to a new branch and test.

[andrewjswan]

it is better to have a PR per new feature!

I agree, but it happened here that I did all the changes in one go since I didn't have access to a computer and it was already difficult to break it down.

[lubeda]

Things I tested:

• boot animation 👍especially if you set auto_clear_enabled: false in the display section.
• icon date 👍
• screen identifier with the value [day, weekday]: This feature is nice but the implementation is to obscure. there should be a paramter to icon_date/clock with clock/day/weekday. The weekday should be a parameter in the yaml to be more international i can take a look on this at the week end, the fonts are a problem to make this work the fonst hav to be monospaced e.g. 3 pixels an the up/down position is a problem. Perhaps we have to define a default font from trip5 and make only the second font configurable.
• icon_screen_progress 👍 perhaps the order of the parameters should be icon_screen_progress(iconname, text, lifetime, screen_time, progress, default_font, r, g, b)

I'm still not happy the the screen identifier and the "|" i believe each parameter has to be unambiguously.

To sum it up, you pushed the functionality futher, but we must take care in clean code

[andrewjswan]

I'm still not happy the the screen identifier and the "|" i believe each parameter has to be unambiguously.

Totally agree. But I was trying to fit the functionality into the current model without expanding it or losing the basic functionality. I think I succeeded.

• This feature is nice but the implementation is to obscure

It's really bad out there so far, different fonts, different metrics, and you have to fit it all into 8 points. I'm still working on the display.

• perhaps the order of the parameters should be

You can always change :)

• boot animation 👍especially if you set auto_clear_enabled: false in the display section.

I'm not quite sure what this is about, I'll have to read up on it.

[andrewjswan]

To sum it up, you pushed the functionality futher, but we must take care in clean code

Totally support, I tried to implement the concept, but I don't know C++, so I'm not doing as well as I wanted.