ALTUI : New Features Suggestions

slelieveld · December 19, 2016, 6:20pm

Ok, thanks and I know an alternative… but how can Datamine (and datamine2) do it? out of the appstore?

akbooer · December 19, 2016, 6:21pm

Another alternative is to put the following file on Vera’s /www/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- HTML meta refresh URL redirection -->
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home#">
  </head>
</html>

then the url:

http://VeraIP/altui.html

will start AltUI.

slelieveld · December 19, 2016, 6:45pm

[quote=“akbooer, post:322, topic:188330”]Another alternative is to put the following file on Vera’s /www/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- HTML meta refresh URL redirection -->
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home#">
  </head>
</html>

then the url:

http://VeraIP/altui.html

will start AltUI.[/quote]

Ok, that is a good alternative as well. How would I place that on the “www”?

akbooer · December 19, 2016, 6:55pm

I just ran this code in Lua Test:

local f = io.open ("/www/altui",'w')
local x = [[
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- HTML meta refresh URL redirection -->
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home#">
  </head>
</html>
]]
f:write(x)
f:close()

amg0 · December 19, 2016, 7:09pm

I just ran this code in Lua Test:

[code]
local f = io.open (“/www/altui”,‘w’)
local x = [[

]] f:write(x) f:close() [/code][/quote]

that works but I am not sure the parameters will transit to the redirected page so you have to accept to give up on the url options features.

slelieveld · December 19, 2016, 7:10pm

Uhm… what about my question in relation to the oit of the box functioning of datamine? Why does it work there and why is it not easy to make such a link?

reneboer · December 20, 2016, 9:30am

Hi Sender,

As shown by amg0 and akbooer (and datamine) it can be done but is not recommended. So you can do it on your own system with the instructions above, but do not expect it will become part of standard ALTUI functionality.

Cheers Rene

a-lurker · December 21, 2016, 12:35am

Can I please suggest:

you are looking at the Scenes page
you select a room to view the scenes that are part of that room
you select Scenes +Create button.
You have now entered the scenes create page

Change code so that the room defaults to the room you have selected not “No room”

amg0 · December 21, 2016, 1:55pm

[quote=“a-lurker, post:328, topic:188330”]Can I please suggest:

you are looking at the Scenes page
you select a room to view the scenes that are part of that room
you select Scenes +Create button.
You have now entered the scenes create page

Change code so that the room defaults to the room you have selected not “No room”[/quote]
ok, next release

system · December 25, 2016, 11:00pm

I really like the new timeline! It would be even better if it had an indication of the state not just the change. Maybe a color visual reference, like green for untripped and red for tripped. Or at least a 1 or 0 to indicate new state.

Thanks!!

Zoro · December 28, 2016, 1:33pm

Hi–

I really like altui but have a couple of suggestions:

The various network charts are very good but could you provide a legend of the various colors?
Getting the error “Unknown control type:js_button” on the cvarious camera and no image. Can you give me a hint on how to fix it?
Can you put a scroll bar on the devices page. I can’t see (or get to) all of the rooms without changing the window size

Thanks

Z

amg0 · December 28, 2016, 9:25pm

[quote=“Zoro, post:331, topic:188330”]Hi–

I really like altui but have a couple of suggestions:

The various network charts are very good but could you provide a legend of the various colors?
Getting the error “Unknown control type:js_button” on the cvarious camera and no image. Can you give me a hint on how to fix it?
Can you put a scroll bar on the devices page. I can’t see (or get to) all of the rooms without changing the window size

Thanks

Z[/quote]

1: is kind of hard, will look into it, it is a color per device type but there could be many different types.
2: need more details like the device name, device type , device JSON file to dig more
3: ALTUI avoid scroll bars as it must work on mobile device too. you can uncheck the option “Buttons are fixed on the page” so that they scroll along with the page

NikV · January 6, 2017, 11:02am

Would be nice to have <</Home/[b]Panels/b/current page rather than <</Home/current page to give one click access to use custom pages

I’m starting to use custom pages quite a lot because it allows mixing of commonly used commands from a mixture of scenes/devices

thank you

amg0 · January 6, 2017, 10:42pm

[quote=“NikV, post:333, topic:188330”]Would be nice to have <</Home/[b]Panels/b/current page rather than <</Home/current page to give one click access to use custom pages

I’m starting to use custom pages quite a lot because it allows mixing of commonly used commands from a mixture of scenes/devices

thank you[/quote]

ok, beta version in master branch of GitHub - amg0/ALTUI: Enhancement Interface for VERA home automation system

NikV · January 7, 2017, 12:14pm

Thanks

Whats the easiest way to update to the beta version ?

amg0 · January 7, 2017, 12:59pm

[quote=“NikV, post:335, topic:188330”]Thanks

Whats the easiest way to update to the beta version ?[/quote]

You go to the URL , find the button download zip , then open the zip and extract the files. Upload the files using ui7 apps menu, develop apps then the file upload feature.

NikV · January 7, 2017, 1:34pm

right thats what i did and got version 1982 but I dont see any change to the line with <</Home/currentpage - see attachment

thanks

edit: this is running under openLuup if that matters

NikV · January 7, 2017, 1:50pm

Ah Ive just compared it with vs 1981 running on the vera and I can see it adds the name of the custom page you are viewing

What I originally meant was to have a link like Home so you could jump straight to Use custom pages where ever you were (like you can jump to home from where ever you are) rather than clicking panels > use custom pages sorry communication issue, alternatively have the panels button to go straight to using custom pages and out the edit custion pages on misc or more

or possibly be able to customise where the home button takes you to?

thanks

amg0 · January 7, 2017, 2:09pm

[quote=“NikV, post:338, topic:188330”]Ah Ive just compared it with vs 1981 running on the vera and I can see it adds the name of the custom page you are viewing

What I originally meant was to have a link like Home so you could jump straight to Use custom pages where ever you were (like you can jump to home from where ever you are) rather than clicking panels > use custom pages sorry communication issue, alternatively have the panels button to go straight to using custom pages and out the edit custion pages on misc or more

or possibly be able to customise where the home button takes you to?

thanks[/quote]

humm that changes quite a bit the internal logic, but have you tried direct ALTUI open links like

http://your_ip/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home&home=pageUsePages
http://your_ip/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home&home=pageUsePages&nPage=0
http://your_ip/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home&home=pageUsePages&nPage=0&layout=lean

NikV · January 7, 2017, 3:01pm

yes - trouble is I usally have altui open all the time on a tab so was trying to find a quick way to go straight to custom pages from where ever I am in altui - I use the examples you gave on tablets so the kids can go to their relavant page