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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTo make this acceptable in a home environment, I built it as a photoframe. You can find the sources in the hassframe-ui<\/a> repository on my github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A hidden feature is that if you tap the screen, a home automation control panel slides up. That way you can control all the lights, as well as heat in the garage and an AC in the bedroom. Very convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this is built using QML. Three somewhat useful models are available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also have a bunch of REST calls to my local home assistant<\/a> server. Most of these reside in the HassButton<\/a> class, but I also get the current temperature from there. These are hardcoded for my local network, so needs refactoring to be used outside of my LAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of these interfaces require API keys of one kind or another – be it a proper key, or a secret URL. These are pulled from environment variables<\/a> in All in all the code is quite hacky. Especially Currently it runs on a Raspberry Pi on top of Raspbian. I want to build an optimized Yocto image making it less hacky and more pre-packaged. Perhaps there will be a rainy day this summer and I’ll get around to it. Burkhard has prepared the instructions needed<\/a> over at embedded use<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes you just want to get something done. Something for yourself. You do not intend it to be reused, or even pretty. You build a tool. My tool was a photoframe with some basic overlays. I wanted the family calendar, some weather information (current temperature + forecast), time, and the next bus heading for the … Continue reading Photoframe Hack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded","category-linux","category-qt","category-raspberrypi","category-yocto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200409_082134-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nmain.cpp<\/code> and then exposed to QML. That way, you can reuse the components without having to share your secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\nmain.qml<\/code>. I refactor out parts from there now and then, but the photoframe works, so its not anything that I prioritize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n