Sperate icons for switches

[cgiesche]

Sperate icons for switches

[cgiesche]

I am considering to consider to take a look at what could be done, if i would decide to try implement this ;). This would of course only work for switches and lights, and i would not be able to add "labels" to the image.

*considering*

[cgiesche]

Hi rvst,

first of all, thank you for your suggestion! I already thought about something similar, but came to the decision to not implement this kind of feature (yet). The main difficulty in my plugin is that it supports many different entity types and generates images (svg) dynamically. Mixing this dynamic approach with the configuration approach could work, but would make the implementation much less generic. In addition, you can only configure two different images, most likely this would be an "on-image" and an "off-image". How would i decide, where to use this image? Only on Switches? Or Lights? Boolean sensors?

Maybe i will come back to this idea sometime.

[EpicLPer]

Not sure if you'll still see this @cgiesche but maybe you can make 2 different "Home Assistant Entities" for this in the right panel to pick from. One that has this kind of function and one that's just the normal standard thing we have right now, could potentially solve this issue.

[cgiesche]

Can you access normal web image links?
While your workaround probably is more than enough for me, I'd still love to see an option to just plug in direct image links to imgur or something, if that is at all possible.

This may be possible. I will give it a try.

Edit: Idk if this is the right issue for it, but maybe you could add an option to change the colours of the default sliders/icons? That would probably also be enough for many already.

With the last update, i already prepared the code for customizable colors. It will be available soom(tm). I will create a new ticket for this.

[cgiesche]

Experimental Version will be part of next release.

[DerLeole]

Sorry to open this up again.

One possible solution for this, together with fixing the more than two icons problem, could be providing text fields where users can specify the path to the icon they want.
For every icon you dynamically create, a new box could appear on your custom setup window, where one could provide the offline path or link to override that specific generated image.
Could that work?

That way you could also go a layered approach and still overlay things like the green dot on the corner, over custom icons (maybe as a checkbox option).

One reference for this would be BarRaiders OBSTools where he uses a similar method.

[cgiesche]

Hey Leolele99,

of course, allowing the user to define the path to an icon sounds like the easy way to go. Unfortunatelly I choose the "web-way" (JavaScript) to implement the plugin. With that approach, i am very limited when it comes to accessing resources (files) from the user's computer (in fact, i think i can not access them at all, it's a safety feature). I think even "fake" file uploads (like in normal websites) would not work.
If i would be able to get the image data, overlaying them with labels or the "dot" would be quite easy. As far as i can see, the BarRaider plugin(s) are native .NET applications which are much less limited compared to javascript.

My current approach is to use the built in custom icon selection. The drawback of this approach is, that i can not access the icon content from my code. I can only tell streamdeck to switch to user-icon 0 or 1. No chance to manipulate that image.

I added a second button type that allowes to choose custom icons for "on/off" entities (it feels hacky and i dont like it, but it seems to work). Maybe i can release a preview this weekend:

[DerLeole]

Can you access normal web image links?
While your workaround probably is more than enough for me, I'd still love to see an option to just plug in direct image links to imgur or something, if that is at all possible.

Thanks for your quick answer anyways, looking forward to the preview!

Edit: Idk if this is the right issue for it, but maybe you could add an option to change the colours of the default sliders/icons? That would probably also be enough for many already.