I somehow can not vote, writes - limit, I do not understand what I have to do.
@Olymp Please try now
There is a limit on votes based on user activity in community. I have increased those, since it doesn’t seem to be high enough for our community usage.
Thank you voted! For me, for today, this is the most important function.
Hi! Is the function of turning on / off the screen with the element OpenHAB2 soon?
@Olymp I can’t give any timeline, since there are a lot of issues at play. This feature is high on the list to be developed next though.
Just to clarify the options for this request (my ten cents worth):
- Utilise a sensor to monitor, and slave the state of the screan to that. Might be a bit clunky.
- Implement mqtt client, and then subscribe/push “State” topic for screen (ON/OFF)
- Optionally additional mqtt topic “Page”, so that you can set the screen to display a particular dashboard
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I do not want to seem annoying, but please tell me, is this feature (most expected for me) still on the list?
@Olymp It definitely is, but it is part of a broader feature set and have dependency on other related features that rely on platform data to change app behavior. So not sure when it is going to be released just yet.
I just wanted to remind you, suddenly the topic was lost 
If it’s difficult to turn on / off the screen on command from a remote platform, can it be easier to turn on / off the screen saver? That would be better than nothing 
Thanks!
Hi, thank you for the great app.
I am now in the process of mounting a tablet on the wall running this excellent app.
I hat everything setup in my mind to use another solution which had a MQTT sensor that can be used for various tasks. Unfortunately it is too slow and I gave up on that app.
My idea was to get the tablet’s battery status and enable the usb power supply only between 20% and 80% SOC through my home assistant automation.
Will this also be possible once the big feature will be available?
Thank you.
Both have some challenges. The on/off screensaver is something that might be released soon.
Any update on this?
No update?
@igor: If you now start with paid versions you should take more focus on keep this forum up to date and give feedback to users.
And if course listening to users and add the most wanted features. If it’s not possible or NOT on the roadmap you should communicate this as well.
Otherwise noone wil use this forum anymore…
@izeman in short, there is no update for this feature at this time. It is still something we want to do in the future, at least the on/off screensaver part of it.
For any idea, we let community to vote on it regardless, since some features might be infeasible from feature-set perspective, but might be worth it if there is a great need from the community.
Generally, I totally understand the desire to get more detailed status on any given idea, but it is hard to make these details public in a fluid development environment.
Publishing of roadmaps or any other forward looking plans varies from company to company, but majority choose to not them public. Inevitably any statement about future development is considered a promise by someone. So it would be unfair for us to make any promises that we can’t honor in the future.
I would always encourage any user to purchase license for the app at the time when they are happy with existing functionality when using free version, or if they want support any future development in principle.
I’m never clear why people want this feature? I’ve not had any issue with screens being on for most of each day, running for years.
I really want the simple scheduled on and off, to save energy, and the screen and battery, so they get some rest for those hours that the display will never be used, over night. I really don’t want to have to wait by a dashboard for it to see me and unlock and refresh the screen. Do other implementations of camera based wake to unlock really work that well? Most cameras are nowhere near the 180 degrees it would need to work as I walk towards the edge screen, not straight towards it.
Hey @igor it does appear that this feature is currently the highest voted request so hopefully you guys can work on it soon.
I would propose just waking the screen using an OpenHAB sensor rather than the camera. I have an alarm PIR pretty much pointing at my wall mounted tablet in the lounge so any movement would nicely turn on the screen.
For someone who wants to use the device camera I have seen many separate apps that allow motion to be detected and that to be sent to OpenHAB using MQTT or the API which in turn could then be used to turn on the screen using a sensor.
Yes, I agree. Taking action based on a sensor/data would be done first.