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Dedicated Device Section #175

Open AryasDad opened 8 months ago

AryasDad commented 8 months ago

Is there an existing issue for this?

Description

Would be nice to have a dedicated Device category where you can create a UI for that device but not have it necessarily be an activity that you can switch to to control specific functionality of a device without it being in an Activity.

Currently, I have them setup as an Activity with no startup/shutdown commands, but this seems like a kludge, as the remote treats these as two (or more) active activities which seems like may have unwanted side effects?

Additional context

It is to replicate Harmony Elite (and possibly other remotes) where you can access a device outside of an activity when needed for some specific functionality of that device.

fbutler commented 8 months ago

There is device functionality is accessible within an activity if you click at the top of the screen whilst in an activity.

However it sound like you want the same remote device functionality available outside of an activity. What I did for this, for IR remotes, was to customise the buttons in the Remotes page with whatever functionality I wanted. I then created a separate page within my profile and added the remotes to it. I can access that page by going to the main Activities page on the remote by swiping left to access the remotes on the new page. I've found this functionality useful in setting up the remote where activities have failed to fully work correctly for various reasons and I'm trying to get back to a known state outside of an activity.

AryasDad commented 8 months ago

I am not using the IR remote functionality at the moment. I am using Home Assistant LG WebOS TV and Denon AVR integrations. I had to create several custom scripts for each device to get the remote button functionality that isn't already baked into the Media Player HA devices. I imported those into Remote Two.

I just need away to create a UI that is not really an Activity where I can add all of these buttons and have access to them when needed. Hence why I created a Sudo-activity with this, but it is not technically an activity.

Maybe by adding a Non-IR remote section? I just poked my head in the IR Remote area (and will eventually need to use it for one of my devices), but do not see a way to "trick it" to use non-IR type commands.