added media player card and external updates

closes #8 and closes #9

HMI/README.md

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ entityUpd,*internalNameEntiy*,*heading*,*currentTemp*,*destTemp*,*status*,*minTe
 
 ### cardMedia Page
 
-entityUpd,*internalNameEntiy*,*heading*,*icon*,*title*,*author*,*volume*
+entityUpd,|*internalNameEntiy*|*heading*|*icon*|*title*|*author*|*volume*
 
 ## Messages from Nextion Display
 

appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml

@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ nspanel:
     dateFormat: "%A, %d. %B %Y"
     pages:
       - type: cardEntities
-        heading: Rolladen
+        heading: TestPage1
         items:
           - cover.rolladenfenster_cover_1
           - cover.nspterrasse_cover_1
-          - cover.rolladenterasse_cover_1
+          - input_boolean.notify_home
           - sensor.nspterrasse_analog_temperature1
       - type: cardEntities
-        heading: TestPage
+        heading: TestPage2
         items:
           - button.beamer_key_left
           - cover.rolladenterasse_cover_1
@@ -28,5 +28,6 @@ nspanel:
         heading: TestThermo
         item: climate.kuche_boden
       - type: cardMedia
-        heading: TestThermo
+        heading: TestMedia
         item: media_player.spotify_user
+

appdaemon/apps/nspanel.py

@@ -180,14 +180,16 @@ class NsPanelLovelanceUI:
         items.extend(page["items"])
     
     for item in items:
-      self.api.handle = self.api.listen_state(self.state_change_callback, entity_id=item)
+      self.api.log("enable state callback for %s", item)
+      self.api.handle = self.api.listen_state(self.state_change_callback, entity_id=item, attribute="all")
 
   def state_change_callback(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
     current_page_config = self.config["pages"][self.current_page_nr]
 
     page_type = current_page_config["type"]
 
-    self.api.log("test {0}".format(entity))
+    self.api.log("got state_callback from {0}".format(entity))
+    
     
     if page_type == "cardEntities":
       items = current_page_config["items"]
@@ -288,7 +290,7 @@ class NsPanelLovelanceUI:
     if "volume_level" in entity.attributes:
       volume = int(entity.attributes.volume_level*100)
 
-    return "entityUpd,{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}".format(item, heading, icon, title, author, volume)
+    return "entityUpd,|{0}|{1}|{2}|{3}|{4}|{5}".format(item, heading, icon, title, author, volume)
 
 
   def generate_page(self, page_number, page_type):
@@ -316,4 +318,5 @@ class NsPanelLovelanceUI:
       # Send page type
       self.send_mqtt_msg("pageType,{0}".format(page_type))
       command = self.generate_media_page(self.config["pages"][self.current_page_nr]["item"])
-      self.send_mqtt_msg(command)
+      self.send_mqtt_msg(command)
+