Profile switching API

00conman

Okay sorry about that.

My first question is if I would be able to switch out layouts via a command in the Pi’s terminal or via an ssh. And, my second, if I can change layouts from a terminal, is how I would go about making the different layouts.

paviro

@00conman sure you could. Would be the same thing like I do in my module but you probably would need to serve an API you could then trigger via a terminal :)

MichMich

@00conman it would be worth creating a module that has an API to switch “profiles”. It’s actually extremely doable. But I suggest you open a separate topic for this.

00conman

Okay I’ll look into it.

ascension

@00conman
Any progress on this? Facial recognition looks great, but I can’t get approval from my better half to put a camera in the bathroom mirror… Changing profiles using a physical button or a gesture would work perfectly.

KirAsh4

Just thinking out loud here, but you should be able to have a button that cycles through profiles. It might even be possible to use the current Button module (I forgot who wrote it), and use that. Set up a case switch to change profiles. Something sort of like this:

// Warning, pseudo code, will not run as-is

var buttonCount = 0;
var availableProfiles = 2;

if (detect_button_press()) {
  buttonCount++;
  if (buttonCount > availableProfiles) buttonCount = 0;

  switch (buttonCount) {
    case 0:
      // Display profile for user 0
      break;
    case 1:
      // Display profile for user 1
      break;
    case 2:
      // Display profile for user 2
      break;
    default:
      // Display default profile
  }
}

Now you can push the button all day long. The only issue here is that you are cycling through the profiles, and for a household that has several, that can become a bit tedious.

Another possibility is to count button presses, so you would switch profiles based on how many times one pushed the button, but that too has its limitations. It works great for single-click, double-click, and possibly a long-press, but anything after that and it gets problematic again. Profile cycling is by far the easiest to implement.

ascension

@KirAsh4
Thanks for the quick response! I’ll take a look at the BUTTON module. Hopefully it’ll work the way I need it to. Fortunately, I only have 2 profiles I’ll need to cycle thru.