maybe easier to use Dashboard replacement

[ciberyan]

Hello
I undersand also the feeling
You do a very nice job already
for the documentation, it's up to us to fight a little bit
Versionning can be just a time stamp for example
keep the good job running easy

[chromo23]

Thank you for the nice words and I really appreciate that!

Versionning can be just a time stamp for example

For the versioning i now use the date as suggested. It appears when you hover over the info button.

On the other hand it may help to put at least a few ideas in writing, so there is some backlog of intentions for others to read.

Thanks also for your sharing your ideas TD-er. Right now i kind of using this thread as a kind of notebook, where you can find the latest changes and hopefully soon, based on that I'll complete the documentation on GitHub.

So long, have a nice weekend!

[chromo23]

Hello dear ESPeasier,

I added today pushbuttons to easyfetch because i was in need for it. I have a project, where i need to control a motor and having pushbuttons for this is quite useful.

- create a dummy device which name includes "pButtons" and every value becomes a virtual pushbutton (add "&<unitnumber>" to the valuename and it sends the event directly to another node)
- start pressing a button creates an event based on the this: <valuename> + "Event=1"
- letting go of the button creates an event like this: <valuename> + "Event=0"

Here the visual howto:

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[chromo23]

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[TD-er]

Very nice!

[chromo23]

Hi,
because nobody asked for it, i honestly don’t know why i did this (because i actually don’t need it) and because Tasmota has one too, i present the neoPixel-Slider.
I actually had a 10KByte limit for the file size....i landed at almost 10,3KByte So no features anymore (except they have to do with accessibility)

- name a dummy device something that has "neoPixel" in it and you can create slider for hsv values. Name a value either "h", "s", or "v"
- You can choose wich slider you need. You can use all three or just one.
- An event looks like this: <devicename(e.g. "neoPixel1")>+"Event="+ <h-value> + <s-value> + <v-value>

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Edit: Code Example:

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On neoPixelEvent Do
  NeoPixelAllHSV,%eventvalue1%,%eventvalue2%,%eventvalue3%
Endon

[Ath]

That looks great!

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

[chromo23]

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

No, sorry...
I thought HSV (or HSL) is much more common for these kind of slider that´s why i did it.
I only have space for one kind of slider with my freshly self imposed feature freeze...
But for you i could lift it.
Or if you say, the RGB slider would be better suited for controlling neopixel i change exchange it with the other one.

[TD-er]

It should only be a very simple matrix multiplication to get from one color space to the other.

[Ath]

Do you also have support for RGB sliders? (I'm not up to date with all EasyFetch features, sorry)

No, sorry...
I thought HSV (or HSL) is much more common for these kind of slider that´s why i did it.

It was more an information request than a feature request. I probably won't be using that as IMHO the HSV is very usable, and we have conversions (both directions) available (though not available from rules, I think).

I only have space for one kind of slider with my freshly self imposed feature freeze...
But for you i could lift it.
Or if you say, the RGB slider would be better suited for controlling neopixel i change exchange it with the other one.

Don't lift that code-freeze just for this, please

[chromo23]

IMOPRTANT NOTE!

Since the introduction of side swipe to open the navigation menu, html requests will add up with every swipe which leads to freezes and reboots!
If you have a build like that, please update to the latest version!

[TD-er]

Can't have freezes with the current energy prices...

[chromo23]

Can't have freezes with the current energy prices...

Absolutely! But i am thinking to re add this "feature" in the summer where one can plaster the walls with microcontroller, saving the AC.

[Andrew Mamohin]

Hi!
I read your topic and I realized that this is very difficult for me. Could you write me a file so that it simply shows the values of my kitchen timer in the browser, which is made in ESPEASY?
Just: "XX min XX sec", maybe add another button "stop".
Minutes and seconds, these are the values of Dummy Device: [DI#M] and [DI#S].
This is necessary so that my wife, when working at the computer, can see how much time is left for readiness in the kitchen.

[chromo23]

Hi Andrew,

sorry for answering so late. (I was really sick for a long time and i now start to recover.)
Regarding you question:
Since you store minutes and seconds separately you could name the dummy device "bigVal" instead of "DI" and then the numbers will be displayed next to each other.
A button you can create by adding either a "Switch" device and call it "button" or whatever you want (create it without assigning a gpio) or create a single "dummy" device called "dButtons". and name the value (eg "button" or whatever you want ). Both ways will create a button tile. If you click on this tile it will create an event called (assuming you named the button "button" ) "buttonEvent". This event you can use then in rules:

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On buttonEvent Do
	//put your code to reset the timer in here
Endon

Example:

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Edit:
The interval of easyfetch is two seconds so it will refresh the displayed value only every two seconds. Refreshing the display every second is possible with simply changing the value in the code but could lead to issues in terms of responsiveness of ESPeasy if your device is constantly under heavy load.

[Andrew Mamohin]

Regarding you question:

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how I can change this for myself...



Here is my screen fetch.html.gz.
How can I remove unnecessary elements, and display the necessary elements with the necessary description?

[chromo23]

How can I remove unnecessary elements, and display the necessary elements with the necessary description?

Add an XX the the Device name of Elements you don´t want do display: e.g. "KEY1XX" but keep in mind that you have to change this name everywhere else too... (e.g. in rules).
Than change "DI" to "bigVal" or anything that includes "bigVal" like "bigVal_DI".
This is also explained in the readme here: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easyfetch

Edit: or try only to change the name of "DI" to "bigVal" and see what happens... maybe the other values do not necessarily to be hidden..
And change the number of decimals to 0 for minutes.

Edit2: Unfortunately there is no other way than adding "XX" for hiding devices in easyfetch since the whole thing was written to be "non invasive" to ESPeasy to not add more code and complexity to it. But maybe in the future a checkbox for hiding a tile in the devices settings would be nice.

[chromo23]

A button you can create by adding either a "Switch" device and call it "button" or whatever you want (create it without assigning a gpio) or create a single "dummy" device called "dButtons". and name the value (eg "button" or whatever you want ). Both ways will create a button tile.

If you create a button you can assign a background color for visual feedback depending of the value of the task. If you give it the value 2 it becomes a red tile.
With this you could easily create a blinking tile by alternating the button value from 0 to 2

Rules for that could look like this:

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On timefinished Do
 LoopTimerSet,1,2000
Endon

On Rules#Timer=1 Do
  If [button#State]=0
   TaskValueSet,button,1,2
  Else
   TaskValueSet,button,1,0
  Endif
Endon

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Edit: it´s blinking every 2 second so probably not the best indicator. but i think i will add a real blinking functionality to buttons (e.g. value=3 means blink in blue and value=4 means blink in red)

[trendkill]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

[chromo23]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

Thanks

This should do the trick:

(if "Inversed Logic:" is set the value-name needs to be changed from "State" to "iState")
if you have an old build use "btnState" + ? + "gpio Number" instead (e.g. btnState?12)

[trendkill]

beautiful project, thank you!!! I just tried and the software button (Switch Input) doesn't work for me when 'Inversed Logic' is ticked.

Thanks

This should do the trick:

(if "Inversed Logic:" is set the value-name needs to be changed from "State" to "iState")
if you have an old build use "btnState" + ? + "gpio Number" instead (e.g. btnState?12)

Works perfectly!!! Thank you very much, I'll use this A LOT!

[trendkill]

Hi! Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider? Like long press to make modification or a requirement to press an unlock icon first.... Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead? To save a variable into a dummy device. Just some ideas.
It's quite easy to press the slider accidentally while forget what was the previous setting
Thanks!!!!!!

[chromo23]

Thanks for your suggestions!
This reminds me again, that i should renew the documentation....i really suck at that.
Instead of doing so i startet another project ...sneak peek: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easy2ntfy

Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead?

For this i already have a solution:

- number input (name a dummy-device "vInput"), enter a number and confirm with "enter" or "click" on the upper part of the tile

https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/dow ... hp?id=7450

Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider?

No, it´s currently not. And right now i see no reason to do so (since it can be done with rules). There is another way to "lock" a slider by disabling it. See here:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/vie ... 886#p61886

Edit: i forgot to mention another functionality of the slider.
If you change the slider value it changes the value in the dummy-device with "taskValueSet" and it also send an extra "event"
e.g.: "taskvalueset,vSlider,1,1023" and "event,slider1Event=1023"
If you just click on the "outer edges" of the slider the event now sends two values (2nd one accessible via "%eventvalue2%") depending on the side of the slider.
e.g. clicking on the left side: "event,slider1Event=0,0"
right side: "event,slider1Event=1023,1"
I don´t know if this helps. I only added this functionality because i needed it for a very special use case...

[trendkill]

Thanks for your suggestions!
This reminds me again, that i should renew the documentation....i really suck at that.
Instead of doing so i startet another project ...sneak peek: https://github.com/chromoxdor/easy2ntfy

Or maybe a form where user can type a number instead?

For this i already have a solution:

- number input (name a dummy-device "vInput"), enter a number and confirm with "enter" or "click" on the upper part of the tile

download/file.php?id=7450

Is it possible to lock somehow the vSlider?

No, it´s currently not. And right now i see no reason to do so (since it can be done with rules). There is another way to "lock" a slider by disabling it. See here:
viewtopic.php?p=61886#p61886

Edit: i forgot to mention another functionality of the slider.
If you change the slider value it changes the value in the dummy-device with "taskValueSet" and it also send an extra "event"
e.g.: "taskvalueset,vSlider,1,1023" and "event,slider1Event=1023"
If you just click on the "outer edges" of the slider the event now sends two values (2nd one accessible via "%eventvalue2%") depending on the side of the slider.
e.g. clicking on the left side: "event,slider1Event=0,0"
right side: "event,slider1Event=1023,1"
I don´t know if this helps. I only added this functionality because i needed it for a very special use case...

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too! Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

vInput is perfect,. exactly what I was thinking about! Works better for my case than vSlider.

Got few more questions, if you don't mind:
- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?
- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

Thanks a lot!

[Ath]

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

The Dark mode is a setting in the Tools/Advanced page ("Web light/dark mode" selection option), if it is included in the build. (Excluded in LIMIT_BUILD_SIZE builds, like Collection A..F, Display, Neopixel)

[trendkill]

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

The Dark mode is a setting in the Tools/Advanced page ("Web light/dark mode" selection option), if it is included in the build. (Excluded in LIMIT_BUILD_SIZE builds, like Collection A..F, Display, Neopixel)

Yes I already tried that, but onyl espeasy's web gui changes to dark theme then, your easy fetch stays light.

[Ath]

Easyfetch probably uses the browser or OS setting for dark mode.

[trendkill]

Easyfetch probably uses the browser or OS setting for dark mode.

That's right! Thanks!

[chromo23]

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too!

Thanks.. i actually don´t know if the software for the gateway works. It´s also (for now) for esp8266 only.
I couldn´t test recent changes since i took no hardware with me and already getting withdrawal symptoms...
More information about this will follow as soon as i am home but for now don´t expect too much of it.

Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

Note, that "easy2ntfy" is not for notifications. It is a combination of hardware and software that enables you to use "easyfetch" through the internet without using a vpn.
!It will NOT notify you when your boiler is about to explode!
(But therefore you could use "PostToHttp" and send messages to e.g. ntfy...)

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

@ath gave you already an advice. Does it work for you with changing the system settings? Otherwise i could give you a version with "dark mode only" in a few days if you prefer to use this independently from your system settings.

- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

No, this is not possible. But i also could put this in a special version too if you want. (But note, that it will be the two-column-mobile view only then.)

EDIT: I think i can later add an option to force the two-column-view in desktop mode

[trendkill]

easy2ntfy looks good, I'll have a look on this later too!

Thanks.. i actually don´t know if the software for the gateway works. It´s also (for now) for esp8266 only.
I couldn´t test recent changes since i took no hardware with me and already getting withdrawal symptoms...
More information about this will follow as soon as i am home but for now don´t expect too much of it.

Previously I used notifymydevice urls, but it's slow, and sometimes an alert push notification arrives hours later. This is not good when a boiler is about to explode

Note, that "easy2ntfy" is not for notifications. It is a combination of hardware and software that enables you to use "easyfetch" through the internet without using a vpn.
!It will NOT notify you when your boiler is about to explode!
(But therefore you could use "PostToHttp" and send messages to e.g. ntfy...)

Ah okey, I checked only ntfy, but that thing will be good for me I think.

- your screenshots with that dark colorscheme/theme looks good. Can I use that somehow?

@ath gave you already an advice. Does it work for you with changing the system settings? Otherwise i could give you a version with "dark mode only" in a few days if you prefer to use this independently from your system settings.

Yes it works, I changed the theme to dark in Brave and easyfetch changed to dark mode too. I like it.

- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

No, this is not possible. But i also could put this in a special version too if you want. (But note, that it will be the two-column-mobile view only then.)

EDIT: I think i can later add an option to force the two-column-view in desktop mode

Don't bother with any special version for me, it's such a small thing. If you add it to the new version, I'll be happy to use that though.

Thanks a lot!

[chromo23]

- I created a triple bigValC dummy device so I have a 3 column layout in Laptop and Tablet. But in the phone it's 2 columns and the first bigVal tile is a bigger tile in the left side. I like that, can I force this view in the laptop and tablet too?

I updated easyfetch for you.. took a while

- You can now force the "2row-view" by long pressing the "i" button (it sets a cookie) Disable it with long pressing the button again.
- Long pressing the "node-list" button en- /disables the "sorted view" (button tiles are rendered before anything else despite the position in the devices list).
- Leaving the page without closing it immediately stops gathering data from the ESPeasy device.

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Have fun

[trendkill]

wow this is awesome! Thanks a bunch!

[chromo23]

I added a "color-scheme inverting" option by long pressing the "unit name"
It is maybe useful for people that use static a color-scheme that they don´t want to change only to get another color-scheme in easyfetch.

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[Ath]

You might consider adding an options menu with all these special 'long press' etc. features, as it's getting hard to remember all of them...

[chromo23]

You might consider adding an options menu with all these special 'long press' etc. features,

The reason i reuse elements for extra features is, that it keeps the file smaller since i also can reuse some of the code.

as it's getting hard to remember all of them...

But you are right and is has definitely not become easier as stated in the title. (I mean to my defense, it is quite easy to use if you use it just as a simple dashboard visualizing only data )
Maybe also helpful: This weekend i plan to update the documentation. (I hope the weather stays shitty)

Edit:
I would love to add some extra menus and a lot more functionality. But this would mean that i would maintain an extra version of easyfetch since i still rely on a small version for 1M units. But i am already not able to keep up with the documentation and updates. So adding extra work is unfortunately not possible right now and probably not in the future

[chromo23]

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[Ath]

That's really helpful

[Haldi_2]

I've used the "/control?cmd=even, eventname" for the longest time and was annoyed that i only get an "Ok" string back.
Finalled configured everything correctly so it works for my door.



modified the:

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<body onload="fetchJson(),buttonClick('Tor', '0')">

so that whenever i Open the page it automatically does send a Signal, so no more need for another button pushed.

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on Torevent do
 pulse,4,1,800
endon

As i use pulse and not open or close commands it doesn't really matter if it's 0 or 1.

But there is just one downside to this. As i have a reed/magnet sensor it only switches when the door is fully open, which takes about 10 seconds.
So i'm just sitting there, waiting, thinking "Yes yes it surely works" while walking down the stairs.

Now what do you think about my totally crazy feature request: A Tile that shows the last 3 lines from the Log.
Might actually not work that well as there is a 2 seconds refresh....... and there might be other stuff spaming the log during that duration....
Anyone else has a better idea than simple faith? ^^

[chromo23]

I am not sure if easyfetch is the right application for you.
I would do this a different way.

For simple http requests is use "shortcuts" on IOS (there are similar apps for android like "HTTP Request Shortcuts")

But there is just one downside to this. As i have a reed/magnet sensor it only switches when the door is fully open, which takes about 10 seconds.
So i'm just sitting there, waiting, thinking "Yes yes it surely works" while walking down the stairs.

Since ESPeasy features the "PostToHttp" command you could send a notification to your phone via ntfy when the reed switch changes state

(Additional infos to PostToHttp:
https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/lates ... l-commands
viewtopic.php?p=62781
)


If you still want to use easyfetch you could change the state of "Tor" to 1 with "TaskvalueSet" when the reed switch changes state. Then you´ll have a visual feedback as the button turns blue

Edit:

Might actually not work that well as there is a 2 seconds refresh....... and there might be other stuff spaming the log during that duration....

That's one of the reasons this request is denied

[Affinite]

Does anyone know if there is a way to manually change the size of the tiles and fonts in Easyfetch ?
Also, the "undocumented feature" to enable tile colours does not seem to work for me ?

chromo23 - this a great add on that I only just came across by accident.

[chromo23]

chromo23 - this a great add on that I only just came across by accident.

Thanks a lot
Did you downloaded the latest version? I did same changes recently which i had to revert back...

Also, the "undocumented feature" to enable tile colours does not seem to work for me ?

This is how it should look (valuename+ ? + hexcolor without "#"):

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which reminds me of the documentation... (i happily forget things like this )

[Affinite]

Thanks for replying so quickly.
Your screenshot helped a lot and I now understand how to get the colours.

Can the tiles be resized manually ?

[TD-er]

@Chromo23, can you share some of those labels, so I can create a small template to show tomorrow evening at a domotica meetup?

[chromo23]

@Chromo23, can you share some of those labels, so I can create a small template to show tomorrow evening at a domotica meetup?

sure.. but what do you mean by labels?

Can the tiles be resized manually ?

No, they are fixed but you can scale the whole thing with Ctrl+"+" and Ctrl+"-" (or on macos with ⌘-key) in the browser

[TD-er]

Like the labels you give to tasknames and taskvaluenames as shown on your screenshot.
So what options are there?

[chromo23]

So what options are there?

All the available options can be found here (i hope i didn´t forget any):
https://github.com/chromoxdor/easyfetch ... s-overview

But if you have questions, ask. I am traveling right now but i can still try to assist you i you need help...

[chromo23]

Here two other examples. I hope it helps.

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[chromo23]

And remember the Wi-Fi issues?
viewtopic.php?t=10506
It could be, that easyfetch is not working properly with recent builds. These devices have a lot of "ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" issues and with easyfetch it gets worse since often with interaction you have multiple requests shortly after another. My recently updatet esp32 classic has the same issues..

[TD-er]

Hmm I uploaded the index.htm.gz (also the different versions of the fetch) to a 16M ESP32S3 due to the flash size.
However I cannot get anything to load on the root page.
The error I get is this:
GET http://192.168.11.0/ net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED 200 (OK)

Any idea why?

[TD-er]

Ah never mind, I need more coffee

I did 'save as' on the GH page, but then it doesn't save the file, it saves the web page from Github....