Yet another support for commands 2

[hobbypunk90]

Sorry, i deleted my fork on github in a little cleanup action 😅
but i merged now your new master changes 😁

My changes are based on #27, but adds support for home assistants buttons like this:

[ironsheep]

Interesting I'll take a look!

[ironsheep]

@hobbypunk90 I've had a number of requests for this. Your approach makes sense and lets our users decide if they want to enable it. I might even make it not expose the interface unless the commands are active in the config.ini.

[ironsheep]

Also, with this 2nd pull request... should we just close the first with no action against it? (does this replace that?)

[hobbypunk90]

hey @ironsheep,

thanks, i havn't read the notification yesterday 🙈 😅

[ironsheep]

@hobbypunk90 would you be willing to show your card configurations? I'm having trouble trying to pass the service name on the button press for restart service (at least that's what I think you are intending?)

I do have reboot and shutdown working.

Also: what do you think of my doc so far? https://github.com/ironsheep/RPi-Reporter-MQTT2HA-Daemon/blob/master/RMTECTRL.md

[ironsheep]

Changes committed and now avail. in v1.8.0 and later.

[hobbypunk90]

@ironsheep i'm not sure what you mean 😅 i don't use the command buttons on my dashboards, i only trigger them in an automation.

with this commands and an rpi i added a scan2email feature to my scanner 😁

i like your doc 👍 😃

[ironsheep]

@hobbypunk90 I'm newer to HA so I'm looking for examples that I'll include in the documentation.

Can you provide snippets for how you cause RPi reboot and RPi service restart in your setup?

[hobbypunk90]

ahhh, i unterstand 😁 its realy simple:

service: button.press
target:
  entity_id: button.rpi_command_<sensor_name>_reboot

but i think a link to https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/button/ should be enough, what do you think?

[ironsheep]

I agree but one more thing. Do you have restart service working? I'd like to see an example of that as well.

• Stephen

[ironsheep]

Also, please see if v1.8.1 works for you. I've added more ha advertisement detail so when used on cards the buttons dim if the RPi is not powered on.

[hobbypunk90]

I tried it and it works like a charm 👍

i had a look at the service restarting stuff. it doesn't work, but i think it never worked on my system 🤔

[ironsheep]

It looks like it was parameterized... I'll make it not and try it.

There may be an issue with a "Hey running script, tell the system to restart you" so it may not in the end work... but I'll give it a shot.

Maybe we will get lucky... If we don't get it to work I'll just remove that endpoint. But cool idea!

[hobbypunk90]

It is "parameterized" {} will replaced with the action from ha. At this moment it is "PRESS", as soon as HA can send different actions, press, long press, double press, for example, the command will get this action as param 🙂