[Feature Request] Display turn off timer

[woody4165]

Hi and thanks for your project, very interesting

And working well for me

Is there any possibility to have a display turn off timer directly in EspHome code to have the display turn off after X minutes and turns on with a touch of the screen?

Thanks

[steigerbalett]

Yes, it possible. I made the modification in my fork. I will rebase my fork an submit a pull request to strange-v branch:
https://github.com/steigerbalett/RemoteWebViewClient

[strange-v]

@woody4165, you need to define what “turning the display off” means for you.

Overall, the primary goal of creating the ESPHome component was to let users utilize all native ESPHome capabilities as scripts, interacting with the display, touchscreen, etc. I’m a big fan of the single-responsibility principle. RWV should do only its own work and interact with other components as little as necessary to achieve its main task — displaying images from the server.

The same approach applies to documentation and examples: they should only explain how to configure RWV, not how to use ESPHome. The reason is simple — maintenance time. If something in ESPHome changes and I have a screenshot of the old UI, I’d need to update it. I have many ongoing projects I work on in my free time, and I’d rather spend that time on what I’m currently interested in than on updating outdated examples.

[steigerbalett]

@woody4165: I made two examples for the ESPHome displays:

• Always on: https://github.com/steigerbalett/RemoteWebViewClient/blob/main/examples/esp32-4848s040-alwayson.yaml
• Turn off the display back light after x seconds: https://github.com/steigerbalett/RemoteWebViewClient/blob/main/examples/esp32-4848s040-autooff.yaml

@strange-v: I tweaked your example a little bit to be more easier to configure. I hope to lower the entry barrier for the project, so more people could use it.

[woody4165]

Thanks @steigerbalett and @strange-v !!

@strange-v I appreciate your work and I understand your point regarding the main goal of this project

I will take a look at @steigerbalett second link about turning off the display back light after x seconds and I will implement in my version.

I will close this issue, since I've got all the clarifications

[vantreeseba]

This may be useful for ya'll

script:
  - id: auto_off_timer
    then:
      - if:
          condition: 
            switch.is_off: screen_stay_on
          then:
          - delay: 60s # 60 seconds (1 minute)
          - light.turn_off: back_light

switch:
  - platform: template
    name: "Keep Screen On"
    id: screen_stay_on
    optimistic: True
    on_turn_on: 
      then:
        - light.turn_on: back_light
        - script.stop: auto_off_timer
    on_turn_off: 
      then:
        - script.execute: auto_off_timer

touchscreen:
  platform: gt911
  on_touch: 
      - light.turn_on: back_light

[geo903]

@woody4165: I made two examples for the ESPHome displays:

• Always on: https://github.com/steigerbalett/RemoteWebViewClient/blob/main/examples/esp32-4848s040-alwayson.yaml
• Turn off the display back light after x seconds: https://github.com/steigerbalett/RemoteWebViewClient/blob/main/examples/esp32-4848s040-autooff.yaml

@strange-v: I tweaked your example a little bit to be more easier to configure. I hope to lower the entry barrier for the project, so more people could use it.

Great example, but I have one problem. If the backlight is off, when I try to activate it by pressing it, I always hit one of the buttons and the command is triggered. Maybe I can make the pressing inactive when the backlight is off?