OH3: Image card in MainUI - How to refresh image?

maxmaximax · January 3, 2021, 3:56pm

I’m trying to get auto-refresh of an image in Main UI (Image card) working.

In OH2 sitemap I used:

Image refresh=60000 url="http://192.168.0.13:3000/render/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/test?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&panelId=2&width=1000&height=500&tz=Europe%2FVienna"

OH3:
I managed to get the chart displayed in Main UI with the Image card/widget.
However, it does not refresh automatically.

The image card states: “Image item to show - preferred if the image changes”

I created the a string item “urltestitem” which holds the URL:

Since I couldn’t find the refresh cycle to be configured in the image card, I used the following rule to update the item every minute:

rule "URL Test"
  when
    Time cron "0 * * ? * * *"
  then
    urltestitem.sendCommand("http://192.168.0.13:3000/render/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/test?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&panelId=2&width=1000&height=500&tz=Europe%2FVienna")
end

I also tried:

    urltestitem.postUpdate("http://192.168.0.13:3000/render/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/test?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&panelId=2&width=1000&height=500&tz=Europe%2FVienna")

It seems as if the above does not trigger the image card to refresh the image - probably because the string (URL) doesn’t change.
The image in the card gets only updated when I change the string (URL) manually (e.g. now-6h -> 12h).

I wonder:

Is there a (simple) way to add the refresh function to the card - e.g. YAML code?
or
What have I done wrong in the rule above?

BobMiles · January 3, 2021, 4:06pm

Hi,

I’m sorry I can’t exactly answer your question but I saw that you are trying to get a rendered image from grafana.
Have you ever thought about embedding the panel as an iFrame and then specifiying the refresh interval by adding &refresh=5s to the URL?
That way you prevent a reload and the iframe will pull the data without refreshing.

I just wanted to leave this here in case it is useful to you - it took me a long time before I found out that was an easy way…

RGroll · January 3, 2021, 4:27pm

Currently not

Nothing - the rule itself works as intended but as you already assumed, the image isn’t refreshing due to the fact that the link doesn’t change.

I would go with iFrame soloution that @BobMiles proposed, as it’s fits best for your usecase.

maxmaximax · January 3, 2021, 4:36pm

Is there a plan to add that functionality?

How do you embed an iFrame?
I tried with URL in Web Frame card, but that is not the same as iFrame, is it?
My observation was that I could not just grab the chart, there was lots of stuff around (header, return button, etc.)

BobMiles · January 3, 2021, 5:00pm

The Web Frame Card is right.
You can just embed the chart - make sure you get the URL in grafana by clicking on the chart context menu and select share - embed. The chart title has to be empty if you don’t want that to be on it.
Maybe you could post a screenshot of what you currently have and I can assist further.

RGroll · January 3, 2021, 6:25pm

Nothing I can say for sure tbh - but at least it sounds like a doable enhancement IMHO. If this is something that would bring a benefit for you (besides the fact that you can use the iFrame soloution in your case) and others, it’s worth opening a github enhancement issue here, I think.

maxmaximax · January 3, 2021, 6:50pm

I’d be grateful for any further assistance in this matter.

Appearance of the rendered image in Image card:

I’m quite pleased with the appearance of the rendered image. I just miss the ability to change the period of the time series ( e.g. now-24h → now).

Appearance of the frame in Web frame card:

Green marked part:
The big plus with the frame is the part marked green - these are meaningful controls for the chart allowing the changes I miss by using the rendered image.

Red marked parts:
Other users (family members) might get confused when they click anywhere in the red parts. I don’t even want anyone to be able to browse the dashboard or start sharing.
Can this be removed somehow?

Blue marked area:
Irrespective of the hight I assign to the frame, there is a quite large unused area at the bottom of the frame.
Can this be removed somehow?

maxmaximax · January 3, 2021, 6:56pm

Never done anything in github before … let’s see

BobMiles · January 3, 2021, 7:02pm

Hi,

you have embedded the dashboard URL. You have to click the panel (chart) menu (it is even displayed on your screenshot) and select share. There you will find a tab “embed” where you will find the correct URL. Just exchange the &from and &to time ranges in the URL to your liking.
Maybe you can even construct the URL string with a dynamic time range, but let’s first get you going with the embedding!

maxmaximax · January 4, 2021, 4:17pm

Well, so easy. Thank you so much for guiding me that way.

grafana_embed

Select time ranges or dynamic time range:

How would you approach this?

In OH2 I used the visibility function to select the desired time range by switching between different URLs of the rendered charts containing:

“from=now-6h&to=now”
“from=now-12h&to=now”
“from=now-1d&to=now”
“from=now-7d&to=now”
“from=now-30d&to=now”

maxmaximax · January 4, 2021, 4:23pm

The embedding works so well - no need to open an enhancement issue for the image card.
Thanks a lot.

BobMiles · January 4, 2021, 4:25pm

That’s looking good!

I would say you could use a String item that has different options to choose from.

For example:
My_Sting_Item with options:

6h
10d
1M

and so on…

And then instead of the plain URL you split it exactly where that string part goes (i.e. behind from=…)

So it would look like:

src: 'http://grafana.superpanel&options&from=' + '=(items.My_String_Item.state)' + '&to=now&refresh=30s'

maxmaximax · January 4, 2021, 4:55pm

In order to test the logic, I tried to split the existing URL string (for now without item):

  src: 'http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + '6h' + '&to=now&panelId=2'

Entered this to the YAML code:

component: oh-webframe-card
config:
  title: PV Leistung vs. Verbrauch Haus
  borders: false
  noBorder: false
  outline: true
  src: 'http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + '6h' + '&to=now&panelId=2'

Getting the following errors:
web frame url string

Did I miss anything?

BobMiles · January 4, 2021, 4:57pm

Hmmm maybe the concatenation works different, could you try & instead of +?

maxmaximax · January 4, 2021, 5:03pm

Doesn’t work.
Have now 3 error messages, whereas the second one above (Implicit map keys…) comes up twice.

maxmaximax · January 4, 2021, 5:10pm

Works now with “+” !
The “=” was missing before the string.

  src: ='http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-'
    + '12h' + '&to=now&panelId=2'

Will get to work on the string item next - probably tomorrow - let’s see.

maxmaximax · January 5, 2021, 5:13pm

I almost got there…

Steps done:

String item created: “test_time_range”

item test_time_range708×401 7.15 KB
List item added to UI with dynamic title to immediately show the selected option:

component: oh-list-item
config:
  title: =(items.test_time_range.state)
  icon: oh:graph
  action: options
  actionOptions: 6h=6 Std,12h=12 Std,1d=1 Tag,7d=7 Tage,30d=30 Tage
  actionItem: test_time_range

Composing the url:

='http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + '=(items.test_time_range.state)' + '&to=now&panelId=2'

gives the following result:

http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-=(items.test_time_range.state)&to=now&panelId=2

The expression “=(items.test_time_range.state)” itself is added as a string instead of the resulting string of the item state.

Going without apostrophs:

='http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + =(items.test_time_range.state) + '&to=now&panelId=2'

result in an error message:
“Error: Expected expression after + at character 91”

Do you know how to get around that one?

RGroll · January 5, 2021, 5:30pm

This isn’t a valid expression - you don’t need the second = to get the item-state. Try:

"='http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + items.test_time_range.state + '&to=now&panelId=2'"

maxmaximax · January 5, 2021, 5:56pm

That made the trick !
Thanks a lot !

Here the result of the exercise:

Is there a smart way to get “buttons” to select the time range somewhere in the green marked spaces?
… or any other smart way to place buttons nicely next to each other in a card or a cell?
… in a way what “mapping” did in OH2?

ysc · January 5, 2021, 6:01pm

This is also a good use case for the oh-repeater and the f7-segmented/oh-button combination with a variable.

component: f7-card
slots:
  default:
    - component: f7-card-content
      slots:
        default:
          - component: f7-segmented
            config:
              round: true
              outline: true
            slots:
              default:
                - component: oh-repeater
                  config:
                    fragment: true
                    for: period
                    in:
                      - value: 6h
                        label: 6 Std
                      - value: 12h
                        label: 12 Std
                      - value: 1d
                        label: 1 Tag
                      - value: 7d
                        label: 7 Tage
                      - value: 30d
                        label: 30 Tage
                  slots:
                    default:
                      - component: oh-button
                        config:
                          text: =loop.period.label
                          fill: =vars.selectedPeriod === loop.period.value
                          round: true
                          outline: true
                          action: variable
                          actionVariable: selectedPeriod
                          actionVariableValue: =loop.period.value
          - component: oh-webframe-card
            config:
              visible: =vars.selectedPeriod != undefined
              src: ='http://192.168.0.13:3000/d-solo/4OdYJNbMk/energie-pv-haus?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-' + vars.selectedPeriod + '&to=now&panelId=2'

2021-01-05_18-59-04

No item needed, if you don’t mind having your period uninitialized before you select it.
That said, you can initialize it at the page level, with

defineVars:
  - selectedPeriod: 6h

in the page config (not possible at the widget level).