First of all, sorry for my bad English.
I have several smartplugs flashed with Tasmota. I want to set the timers using OH3. My idea is to use a web frame card, to browse the URL that leads to the tasmota timers configuration page. e.g. 192.168.165.152/tm?. It works without any problems.
The goal, however, is to display different URLs (smartplugs) in the web frame card, at the push of a button.
There are several list cards above the webframe card.
Every ListItem is a smart plug.
The action to perform when the element is clicked, is External URL
Is it possible to define the web frame card as target for the “External URL”?
Oor is there another idea to realize that?
You don’t want to use the URL action here. To the best of my knowledge there’s just no mechanism for specifying which frame to target with the link.
There is, however, a simple solution. Use the variable action. Give each of the list items the action to set a variable of whatever name you want (for example tasmotaUrl) to the timer page you want to control::
Note: you will have to select advanced options at the top of the config dialog to see the Variable and Variable Value properties.
Then all you have to do is set the source URL on the web frame to that variable using the vars object:
Hello
Thanks for the tip. That sounds plausible, but the webframe card remains empty when I click on a button. I suspect that the variable is set, but the content of the webframe card is not updated. Even if I reload the page (F5), nothing changes. In an additional (temporary) label item (title: =vars.tasmotimerurl) the variable is not displayed either!?
Do you have any other suggestions?
Here the call to the items dict returns an object, not the string with the state. You need to use items.Gosund1121Nachtlicht_IPAdresse.state to get that info.
Also, note that in my example the url (even though it is a i.p. address) still starts with the http://. If you do not include that then OH will interpret the url as relative and not absolute. So the webframe card is trying to access some url like http://localhost/page/Tasmota_Timer/192.168.178.192/tm? which quite plainly doesn’t exist. If you would rather keep the simple ip addresses in all the list item widgets, that’s fine, but then you would have to make sure to apply the http:// prefix in the web card source instead:
Hello
I have tried different variations. None of them works!?
…items.Gosund1121Nachtlicht_IPAdresse.stat… is the IP of the smartplug (e.g. 192.168.178.122) =string
strange!
it works in one (!) constellation
I am on the page
click rigth/top “edit”
click right/bottom “run mode”
click right top “save” (once or twice)
the webframe card shows the URL!!
But only (!) after these steps!
When I call up the page again, the card is empty again.
This is how it works, but only under the above conditions
The behaviour is the same with Firefox, Edge, Chrome
In normal operation, nothing happens when I click on the buttons.
The URL is also not displayed in the provisional LabelCard.
With this configuration, it is expected that the URL will be blank when first loading the page. The variable vars.tasmotimerrul has not been set yet so it is null and the webframe is not showing anything. One of the easiest ways to handle this just to make the setting of the url source a little smarter by first checking if the variable is null or not.
src: '=(vars.tasmotimerurl == "null") ? {set some url for a default value} : vars.tasmotimerurl'
The expression checks tasmotimerurl if it’s null then it selects the first option after the ? which you would set to be whatever source you want the webcard to show first. If tasmotimerurl is not null that is, if something else has given it a value then it selects the second option which is just to use whatever that value is.
But the fundamental problem remains. The buttons do not work in regular operation. The content of the webframe card does not change.
But the fundamental problem remains. The buttons do not work in regular operation. The content of the webframe card does not change.
And a new problem has arisen. When I use the combination: Edit - run mode - save (several times), the whole OH window is displayed in the webframe card ???
The core of the problem must lie in the setting of the variable and not in the webframe card. Even in this minimal setup, the variable is not displayed in the LabelCard.
That’s strange. I don’t have an explanation for that.
OK, that helps. I had missed that the webframe was at such a different level than the buttons, sorry. The problem here is that in the pages there seems to be some relationship between the levels of the components and the scope of the variables that they can access. Fortunately, there’s a very simple solution. We can define variables in the page config section to give them “global” scope that let every component have access to them. So all you need to do is:
This defines the variable as a page level variable and sets a default value for it. Because it now has a default value (i.e., we don’t have to check for null) we can also return the webframe source to the more simple form:
I don’t believe so, unfortunately. You could still achieve the functionality with only a single variable action, but it would be a little more complex. For something like that I would set the variable to both of the required values separated by a comma variable=item label,ip address. That way you can use the string split method to access either the part before the string vars.variable.split(',')[0] or the part after the string vars.variable.split(',')[1].
