Admin configuration
- Wallpanel
Here, the tablets configurations are added and displayed.
Admin configuration
Interval: The interval will be set in seconds (min: 10 seconds), in which the data is retrieved from the device applies to all devices.
Enable MQTT: When MQTT is is activated, additional settings are enabled for the first time, which are required for the functionality of MQTT. Functionality.
Attention
The ioBroker MQTT Adapter must be installed!
If it is not installed, a message will be displayed will be displayed and MQTT cannot be enabled.
1.MQTT instance: The MQTT instances that are available on the server are automatically displayed in the dropdown.
2.MQTT enabled: This will show indicates whether this tablet should use MQTT.
3.MQTT Topic: This field will be only visible if the tablet uses MQTT. This displays the topic that has been configured for this tablet.
Add device window
- Add Device: Button Image 1 when pressed opens a window in which then the configurations are entered is entered.
Attention
The adapter must be running to add a tablet, if the adapter is not running, a corresponding message will be displayed in the window.
When the adapter is running, a window with input options will open.
Device Name: Here you have to enter the name of the Tablets, the name you can freely assign (maximum 20 characters), but attention this name can be not be changed, as it is used for the ID of the device folder.
Device IP: The IP address of the device this will be checked if it was given correctly, only valid IPv4 are allowed e.g. 192.168.0.1 the dots are set automatically after every 3rd digit.
Attention
The name and IP address must be present only 1x be present, if they are duplicated, a message will be displayed.
device port: here you enter the Port you have configured in Wallpanel App (Default port is.2971).
Tablet enabled: If enabled, the tablet is queried (by default turned on).
Tablet MQTT enabled: This will enable the MQTT query enabled for this tablet.
MQTT Topic: is only visible, if the Tablet MQTT is activated. Here you specify the topic here is an example how it can look like (Important / must be there) Example: wallpanel/samsung this field will be checked if the topic is valid (further information about the.) APP MQTT settings
MQTT Topic Proposal: Here is the beginning of the Topic wallpanel/ is suggested, you can use it, if you also have wallpanel/ in the app as the If not, write your own in the field.
The fields marked with a *, must be specified, otherwise the device cannot be Once everything has been filled in correctly, you can then click on Add. Now it is checked if the device is reachable, if the request to the device was successful, a corresponding message is displayed.
And after 2 seconds the window closes and the device, is created in the view.
Devices creation successful
If the check was not successful, an error message is displayed.
Device creation failed
Possible errors
These are only a few possible errors that can be displayed because I cannot reproduce all errors here, so, there may be other errors displayed, please look for the internet to find out what they mean.
ECONNREFUSED
Connection rejected by the server.(Server ⇨ Wallpanel App)
Check the IP address and port and if the app is enabled on the device.
timeout of 15000ms exceeded.
Connection to the device is taking too long.(Device ⇨ Tablet)
Check the IP address and port and whether the device is on the network.
Tablet Card's
tablet card has 2 buttons Edit Device and Delete device in addition, they show some more information.
- Device information: This will display the name of the device that was specified when it was created. The color tells in addition to the display enabled or disabled, whether the device will be considered when queried.
- Edit device: Here. You can edit the device. Clicking on the button opens a window with prefilled fields that can be fields that you can edit.
Edit device
Attention
Device Name: The name of the tablet cannot be changed!
Since this is used for the ID of the device folder, if you want to have a different name, you must first delete the device first delete and then create new.
Info
Everything else can be changed, it will be the same checks as when creating from the device.
Delete device
- Delete device: When clicking on the button opens a confirmation window, as soon as this has been confirmed, the device is deleted from the configuration. Now only save.
Attention!
When saving and then restarting the adapter, the restarting the adapter, the data points that belong to the tablet will be deleted and cannot be restored.
