Feature free-text

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It would be cool if there was a free-text field in pimatic with optional keyboard input like this.

{
“class”: “DummyField”,
“id”: “dummy-field”,
“name”: “Freetext”
}

or

{
“class”: “DummyField”,
“id”: “dummy-field”,
“name”: “Freetext”,
“keyboard”: “0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9”
}

so you could set the alarm for the alarm clock or other variables.

Regards,
n3ro

https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/544

Anyone ever tried this? Really looking for such a feature.
Just plain input box, nothing more. As soon as it is in the pimatic system as a variable we could do anything with the text.

@koffienl +1

May this can be realized easily with jquery mobile text input types (an extension to HTML5 input types). This is not “free-text”, however, it should serve well in many cases.

See http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.1.1/docs/forms/textinputs/

EDIT: Another solution may be to use a jQM plugin like http://mottie.github.io/Keyboard/

I’ve implemented and published a minimal version for free text input. You can now create a VariableInputDevice:

    {
      "id": "input",
      "name": "Input",
      "class": "VariableInputDevice",
      "variable": "a",
      "type": "string"
    },

It will be maybe extended or changed in the next days.

Works good

@sweetpi That’s awesome. Would it be possible to support different special text input-types like the examples given on the jQuery Mobile page, e.g. date, time, number, color, and such.

http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.1.1/docs/forms/textinputs/

Hello,
i getting an error:
error [pimatic-mobile-frontend]: Client error: b is null
before i’ve put it into the config,
i have updated to the newest version of pimatic.

excuse me that wasn’t correct, the error came, when i was adding the textfield onto the GUI.

mfg
Chris

@chris said:

efore i’ve put it into the config,
i have updated to the newest version of pimatic.

excuse me that wasn’t correct, the error came, when i was adding the textfield onto the GUI.

You need to add the variable too.

Yes i already found it now.

Solved.

@mwittig said:

That’s awesome. Would it be possible to support different special text input-types like the examples given on the jQuery Mobile page, e.g. date, time, number, color, and such.

This is next on my list

Great device!
Is it possible to give such a device a value from the api?

Like:
192.x.x.x/api/device/mydevice/setVariableTo?mynewvalue

That would be great!

this VariableInputDevice is using an existing variable, you already can update variables via API.

Ok, thanks.
But I can’t find how the api is used to change a value…
Can you give an example?

@lschip said:

Can you give an example?

See API documentation. In the example below the-answer is the name of the variable you need to set-up and 1337is the value to be assigned.

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  --header "Content-Type:application/json" \
  --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": 1337}' \
  --user "user:password" \
  http://your-pimatic/api/variables/the-answer