Android App Beta

The alarm clock time can be send to the server with the latest beta.

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This is a really nice feature. Thanks.
Could it be possible to get the name of the alarm into OH?

Was there a change in displaying graphs, websites or images (webcams)?

Before one of the latest updates the aspect ratio was ok, but now i get square images/graphs and the aspect ratio is not ok anymore.

Iā€™ll have a look at it.

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Thereā€™s a bug with scaling charts and image items. Fix is in a pending PR: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-android/pull/1356/commits/69dd8d1dbf3b92a2da7018d266d9d08307763e0d

I didnā€™t find a way to get any additional information besides the time and the sender.

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This is a pity. It would be great to get the name of the alarm so I could then automatically set my wake up light. As things are I need to activate this manually since I am using more alarms than just for the morning wake-up and the light should now always go on then.

The other thing that would be nice: optionally do not update the alarm time when the alarm is snoozed. Although the alarm stays e.g. 7:00 in the app it is internally set to 7:05 when I snooze and my wake up light logic gets confused. Of course, there are ways to address this in my OpenHAB logic but it would be nice if I did not have to.

The Android API only supports getting the time of the next alarm, nothing else.

The Tasker action plugin is now in beta: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-android/releases

Due to the limitations to get information on the alarm within the Android app I decided to try to solve my problem with Tasker. So far I managed to set the Android alarm but I am not able to set Openhab items to values in variables.

It seems from Tasker I can only set values that I select in a drop-down menu but not to the value stored in a variable. Is this really so?

Yes, thatā€™s the case. Plugins can be extended with things like variables, but there are more important things to work on.
These extension require to include a .java file without any copyright notice, so Iā€™m not sure if it would be legal to use it.

The upcoming beta 2.7.5-beta has been converted to Kotlin by @maniac103.

There seems to be a problem with the latest update.

The menu shows the available sitemaps correctly. The default is shown correctly.

However, upon choosing one of the others the program sends you to a different one, not the one chosen.

Was not able to determine any rule which one is opened.

Thanks for otherwise a great app.

This is a bug in the latest beta:

Hi

Right now I have a very strange behaviour on my smartphone. First I thought itā€™s my new Pixel 3XL, but yesterday I did try with my previous one and had the same:

  • Remote-Connection does work in general, but I cannot access a Sub-Sub-Page :thinking:
  1. OK
    image

  2. OK

  3. Connection Timeout?

This only happens if I use the App and it doesnā€™t matter if I try the Beta or the official Release from the Android-Play-Store. If I use the Mobile-Browser everything works like expected.

It looks for me that itā€™s because of the snapshot 1624 I have installed (did not have this issue on snapshot 1578), a change on server-side (myopenhab.org) or something in the App. Right now Iā€™m trying to find out the root cause of this.

I did attach the log-file from the App but this is the part where the app tries to connect to the Sup-Sub-Page:

06-28 12:24:59.726 16571 16571 D ContentController: Opening page LinkedPage{id=00000003, title=BĆ¼ro, icon=office, link=https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/00000003}
06-28 12:24:59.726 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: updateActiveConnections: URL list [https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/29a, https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/0000, https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/00000003], connection org.openhab.habdroid.core.connection.DefaultConnection@1ea11a
06-28 12:24:59.726 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: Creating new handler for URL https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/00000003
06-28 12:24:59.726 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: Creating new SSE helper for sitemap 29a, page 00000003
06-28 12:24:59.726 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: Loading data for https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/00000003, long polling false
06-28 12:25:09.732 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: Data load for https://<openhab-remote-address>/rest/sitemaps/29a/00000003 failed
06-28 12:25:09.732 16571 16571 D PageConnectionHolderFragment: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout

@mueller-ma Do you have an idea what can be the problem here?

openHAB.txt (34.7 KB)

Thanks
Michael

The beta version 2.7.9 has improved handling with VPNs.

Hi,
does anybody know, how to use the app without the micro button?

Thanks
Henry

Hey Henry,
what do you mean? If you donā€™t want to use the voice recognition, you donā€™t have to use it.

Hi,
OK, thats a solution :slightly_smiling_face:
But is it possible to fade out the sign in the options meue in next versions?

Thanks
Henry

No, that wonā€™t happen. Why do you want to hide it?