ioBroker.lovelace

lovelace adapter for ioBroker

With this adapter you can build visualization for ioBroker with Home Assistant Lovelace UI.

Deutsche Dokumentation

Configuration

There are two arts how the entities could be configured:

auto
manual

Auto

In auto mode the similar process will be applied like for google home or material adapter.

Only objects and channel will be detected that have functionand room categories defined

You can define friendly names and this will be used in entities.

Manual

The objects can be defined manually in object tree like sql or histroy. The type of entity must be provided and optionally the name of object. With this method only simple entities, like input_number, input_text or input_boolean could be created. It may not have more than one state or attribute.

Panels

Alarm panel

ioBroker does not support such a device yet, but it can be simulated. If you create such a script:

createState(
    'alarmSimple',
    false,
    false,
    {
        "name": "alarmSimple",
        "role": "alarm",
        "type": "boolean",
        "read": true,
        "write": true,
        "desc": "Arm or disarm with code",
        "def": false,
        "custom": {
            "lovelace.0": {
                "enabled": true,
                "entity": "alarm_control_panel",
                "name": "simulateAlarm" // this is a name how the entity will be called. In this case "alarm_control_panel.simulateAlarm"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "alarm_code": 1234 // this is a alarm code, that must be entered
    },
    function () {
        // react on changes
        on({id: 'javascript.' + instance + '.alarmSimple', change: 'any'}, function (obj) {
            console.log('Control here the real device: ' + obj.state.val);
        });
    }
);

or you just use lovelace.X.control.alarm (entity_id = alarm_control_panel.defaultAlarm) for it.

Number input

This can be done manually if input_number entity type in custom dialog is selected. This type required min and max values in common and optional step could be added. If you want to see the up and down arrows, you should set in custom mode to 'number':

common: {
    custom: {
        "lovelace.0": {
            "enabled": true,
            "entity": "input_number",
            "name": "Shutter" // this is a name how the entity will be called. In this case "alarm_control_panel.simulateAlarm"
            "mode": "number", // default presentation is slider
        }
    }
}

Select input

This can be done manually if input_select entity type in custom dialog is selected. The list of options to select from should be provide in standard commom.states object:

"common": {
    "type": "string",
    "states": {
      "1": "select 1",
      "2": "Select 2",
      "3": "select 3"
    },
    "custom": {
      "lovelace.0": {
        "enabled": true,
        "entity": "input_text",
        "name": "test_input_select"
      }
    }

in other words in should also be input select in IoB.

Timer

Timer could be simulated by following script:

createState(
    'timerSimple',
    false,
    false,
    {
        "name": "timerSimple",
        "role": "level.timer",
        "type": "number",
        "read": true,
        "write": true,
        "unit": "sec",
        "desc": "Start/Stop Timer",
        "def": 0,
        "custom": {
            "lovelace.0": {
                "enabled": true,
                "entity": "timer",
                "name": "simulateTimer" // this is a name how the entity will be called. In this case "timer.simulateTimer"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "alarm_code": 1234 // this is a alarm code, that must be entered
    },
    function () {
        let interval;
        let id = 'javascript.' + instance + '.timerSimple';
        // react on changes
        on({id, change: 'any'}, function (obj) {
            // If command
            if (!obj.state.ack) {
                // If start or pause timer
                if (obj.state.val) {
                    // If pause (the same value was written)
                    if (obj.state.val === obj.oldState.val) {
                        if (interval) {
                            setState(id, state.val, true);
                            clearInterval(interval);
                            interval = null;
                        } else {
                            interval = setInterval(() => {
                                getState(id, (err, state) => {
                                    state.val--;
                                    if (state.val <= 0) {
                                        clearInterval(interval);
                                        interval = null;
                                        state.val = 0;
                                    }
                                    setState(id, state.val, true);
                                });
                            }, 1000);
                        }
                    } else {
                        interval && clearInterval(interval);
                        // update value every second
                        interval = setInterval(() => {
                            getState(id, (err, state) => {
                                state.val--;
                                if (state.val <= 0) {
                                    clearInterval(interval);
                                    interval = null;
                                    state.val = 0;
                                }
                                setState(id, state.val, true);
                            });
                        }, 1000);
                    }
                } else {
                    // stop interval
                    interval && clearInterval(interval);
                    interval = null;
                }
            }
        });
        // test timer. Disable it later
        setTimeout(() => setState(id, 20));
    }
);

Weather

Tested with yr and daswetter. One or more of following objects must have Function=Weather and Room=Any set to be available in configuration:

daswetter.0.NextDays.Location_1
yr.0.forecast

Tested with AccuWeather driver v1.1.0 https://github.com/iobroker-community-adapters/ioBroker.accuweather. Custom Lovelace card created in support of accuweather forecast - https://github.com/algar42/IoB.lovelace.accuweather-card

Shopping list

Shopping list writes the values in form:

[
   {name: 'Task 1', id: 1234222, complete: false},
   {name: 'Task 2', id: 1234223, complete: true}
]

into lovelace.X.control.shopping_list state.

Map

The objects must look like this one:

createState('location', '39.5681295;2.6432632', false, {
    "name": "location",
    "role": "value.gps",
    "type": "string",
    "read": true,
    "write": false,
    "desc": "Gps Coordinates"
});

or this two objects:

createState('location.longitude', 2.6432632, false, {
    "name": "location longitude",
    "role": "value.gps.longitude",
    "type": "number",
    "read": true,
    "write": false,
    "desc": "Gps Coordinates"
});
createState('location.latitude', 39.5681295, false, {
    "name": "location latitude",
    "role": "value.gps.latitude",
    "type": "number",
    "read": true,
    "write": false,
    "desc": "Gps Coordinates"
});

Picture entity

You can use static picture for it or use any state that delivers URL as state. E.g.:

{
  "_id": "daswetter.0.NextDays.Location_1.Day_1.iconURL",
  "type": "state",
  "common": {
    "name": "Weather icon URL",
    "type": "string",
    "role": "weather.icon.forecast.0",
    "read": true,
    "write": false
  },
  "native": {}
}

or just set manually the entity type to camera and write URL into it.

Hide toolbar

To hide toolbar you can set the checkbox in the ioBroker configuration dialog on the Themes tab. To show it, you can disable it in the dialog again or just call the URL with ?toolbar=true parameter.

Markdown

You can use bindings in markdown like in iobroker.vis.

E.g. Text Admin adapter is {a:system.adapter.admin.0.alive;a === true || a === 'true' ? ' ' : 'not '} *alive*. will produce text Admin adapter is alive in markdown panel.

Custom cards

Upload of custom cards

To upload the custom card write following:

iobroker file write PATH_TO_FILE\bignumber-card.js /lovelace.0/cards/

After restart of lovelace adapter it will include all files from the cards directory automatically.

Following custom cards could be tested successfully:

bignumber-card: https://github.com/custom-cards/bignumber-card/blob/master/bignumber-card.js
simple-thermostat: https://github.com/nervetattoo/simple-thermostat/releases (take the latest release)
thermostat: https://github.com/ciotlosm/custom-lovelace/tree/master/thermostat-card (both files .js and .lib.js are required)

I found this link https://github.com/jimz011/homeassistant as an interesting resource for custom cards.

Often the custom cards are stored on github as sources and must be compiled before use. You should check the Releases menu on github and try to find compiled files there. Like this one: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card/releases (Look for the file mini-graph-card-bundle.js)

Own images

The custom images (e.g. for background) could be loaded via the same configuration dialog like the custom cards. And use it like this:

background: center / cover no-repeat url("/cards/background.jpg") fixed

background: center / cover no-repeat url("/local/custom_ui/background.jpg") fixed

in lovelace configuration file. Read more about background in lovelace here.

Themes

The themes can be defined in configuration dialog of ioBroker. Paste something like:

midnight:
  # Main colors
  primary-color: '#5294E2'                                                        # Header
  accent-color: '#E45E65'                                                         # Accent color
  dark-primary-color: 'var(--accent-color)'                                       # Hyperlinks
  light-primary-color: 'var(--accent-color)'                                      # Horizontal line in about

  # Text colors
  primary-text-color: '#FFFFFF'                                                   # Primary text colour, here is referencing dark-primary-color
  text-primary-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'                                 # Primary text colour
  secondary-text-color: '#5294E2'                                                 # For secondary titles in more info boxes etc.
  disabled-text-color: '#7F848E'                                                  # Disabled text colour
  label-badge-border-color: 'green'                                               # Label badge border, just a reference value

  # Background colors
  primary-background-color: '#383C45'                                             # Settings background
  secondary-background-color: '#383C45'                                           # Main card UI background
  divider-color: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, .12)'                                             # Divider

  # Table rows
  table-row-background-color: '#353840'                                           # Table row
  table-row-alternative-background-color: '#3E424B'                               # Table row alternative

  # Nav Menu
  paper-listbox-color: 'var(--primary-color)'                                     # Navigation menu selection hoover
  paper-listbox-background-color: '#2E333A'                                       # Navigation menu background
  paper-grey-50: 'var(--primary-text-color)'
  paper-grey-200: '#414A59'                                                       # Navigation menu selection

  # Paper card
  paper-card-header-color: 'var(--accent-color)'                                  # Card header text colour
  paper-card-background-color: '#434954'                                          # Card background colour
  paper-dialog-background-color: '#434954'                                        # Card dialog background colour
  paper-item-icon-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'                              # Icon color
  paper-item-icon-active-color: '#F9C536'                                         # Icon color active
  paper-item-icon_-_color: 'green'
  paper-item-selected_-_background-color: '#434954'                               # Popup item select
  paper-tabs-selection-bar-color: 'green'

  # Labels
  label-badge-red: 'var(--accent-color)'                                          # References the brand colour label badge border
  label-badge-text-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'                             # Now same as label badge border but that's a matter of taste
  label-badge-background-color: '#2E333A'                                         # Same, but can also be set to transparent here

  # Switches
  paper-toggle-button-checked-button-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-toggle-button-checked-bar-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-toggle-button-checked-ink-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-toggle-button-unchecked-button-color: 'var(--disabled-text-color)'
  paper-toggle-button-unchecked-bar-color: 'var(--disabled-text-color)'
  paper-toggle-button-unchecked-ink-color: 'var(--disabled-text-color)'

  # Sliders
  paper-slider-knob-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-slider-knob-start-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-slider-pin-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-slider-active-color: 'var(--accent-color)'
  paper-slider-container-color: 'linear-gradient(var(--primary-background-color), var(--secondary-background-color)) no-repeat'
  paper-slider-secondary-color: 'var(--secondary-background-color)'
  paper-slider-disabled-active-color: 'var(--disabled-text-color)'
  paper-slider-disabled-secondary-color: 'var(--disabled-text-color)'

  # Google colors
  google-red-500: '#E45E65'
  google-green-500: '#39E949'

taken from here.

Icons

Use icons in form mdi:NAME, like 'mdi:play-network'. Names can be taken from here: https://materialdesignicons.com/

Notifications

You can add notifications via sendTo functionality or by writing the state into lovelace.X.notifications.add:

sendTo('lovelace.0', 'send', {message: 'Message text', title: 'Title'}); // full version
sendTo('lovelace.0', 'send', 'Message text'); // short version

setState('lovelace.0.notifications.add', '{"message": "Message text", "title": "Title"}'); // full version
setState('lovelace.0.notifications.add', 'Message text'); // short version

Voice control

All commands from web interface will be written into lovelace.X.conversation state with ack=false. You can write a script that will react on request and will answer:

on({id: 'lovelace.0.conversation', ack: false, change: 'any'}, obj => {
   console.log('Question: ' + obj.state.val);
   if (obj.state.val.includes('time')) {
      setState('lovelace.0.conversation', new Date().toString(), true); // true is important. It will say, that this is answer.
   } else {
      setState('lovelace.0.conversation', 'Sorry I don\'t know, what do you want', true); // true is important. It will say, that this is answer.
   }
});

Trouble Shooting

If you messed up the YAML Code and see a blank page but still have the top menu, you can enable edit mode (if not already enabled) from the menu and then open the menu again to access the "RAW Yaml Editor" in which you see the complete YAML code and can clean it up. If that does not help, you can open the object lovelace.*.configuration in raw-editor in ioBroker and have a look there. You can also restore that object from a backup. It contains the complete configuration of your visualization.

Original sources for lovelace

Used sources are here https://github.com/GermanBluefox/home-assistant-polymer .

Todo

Security must be taken from current user and not from default_user

Development

Version

Used version of [email protected]

How to build the new Lovelace version

First of all the actual https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend (dev branch) must be manually merged into https://github.com/GermanBluefox/home-assistant-polymer.git (iob branch!).

All changes for ioBroker are marked with comment // IoB. For now (20201021.4) following files were modified:

build-scripts/gulp/app.js - Add new gulp task
build-scripts/gulp/webpack.js - Add new gulp task
src/data/lovelace.ts - add hide toolbar option
src/data/weather.ts - add support to display weather icon from url.
src/dialogs/more-info/ha-more-info-dialog.ts - remove entity settings button and remove weather state & history
src/dialogs/more-info/controls/more-info-climate.ts - print mode name for unsupported modes
src/dialogs/more-info/controls/more-info-weather.ts - add support to display weather icon from url.
src/entrypoints/core.ts - modified authentication process
src/layouts/home-assistant-main.ts - remove app sidebar
src/panels/lovelace/cards/hui-weather-forecast-card.ts - add support to display weather icon from url.
src/panels/lovelace/entity-rows/hui-weather-entity-row.ts - add support to display weather icon from url with auth.
src/panels/lovelace/hui-root.ts - added notifications and voice control
src/util/documentation-url.ts - for link to iobroker help instead of homeassistant.
.gitignore - add .idea ignore
package.json - remove husky commit hook

After that checkout modified version in ./build folder. Then.

go to ./build directory.
git clone https://github.com/GermanBluefox/home-assistant-polymer.git it is a fork of https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend.git, but some things are modified (see the file list earlier).
cd home-assistant-polymer
git checkout master
yarn install
gulp build-app for release or gulp develop-iob for the debugging version. To build web after changes you can call webpack-dev-app for faster build, but you need to call build-app anyway after the version is ready for use.
copy all files from ./build/home-assistant-polymer/hass_frontend into ./hass_frontend in this repo
Start gulp rename task.

Changelog

2.2.0 (2022-06-05)

(Garfonso) fixed: incorrect warning about duplicate entities on update of manual entity.
(Garfonso) fixed: input_datetime did not work if time was enabled and did vanish if date and time were enabled.
(Garfonso) fixed: RGB hex string got broken on not rounded numbers (problem with mushroom ligth card).
(Garfonso) fixed: state of cover entity if not 0 or 100% (fixes problem with sliter-button-card).
(Garfonso) fixed: light did not read brightness ACTUAL in dimmer devices.
(Garfonso) added: support auto entities card and subscription.
(Garfonso) added: improve support for input_datetime & string states.
(Garfonso) added: support for browser_mod (i.e. crontrol frontend from iobroker).

2.1.4 (2022-01-09)

(Garfonso) Dependency update

2.1.3 (2022-01-07)

(Garfonso) Fixed: remove backup of old frontend (sorry)

2.1.2 (2022-01-06)

(Garfonso) Fixed: Menu was broken in frontend.

2.1.1 (2022-01-06)

(Garfonso) Fixed: Entity update in some cases.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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