Feature request: Ability to set screen Display sleep time via MQTT and HA

[dalehumby]

The Display sleep time can be set to 15s, 30 min, never, etc. via the app or Android Settings. It would be great if this could also be set via the Home Assistant / MQTT integration.

My use case is that during the day and when the home is occupied the screen never sleeps. At night when the room lights are off (or when no one is home) I set the display sleep to 2 minutes.

I appreciate that this can be done using "Screen on time" for week days and weekends, and the screen can easily be turned on with wave or tap. However, setting this behaviour using HA automations allows more complex scenarios for when the screen should be on or off.

Thanks for a great project!

PS – A more general version of this feature request is "please make as many settings as possible changeable via MQTT"

[maodun96]

Can the existing "wake up" and "sleep" achieve the effect you want?
You can keep the screen on permanently, and at night, set event.device_proximity to trigger "wake up-2min-sleep"

[dalehumby]

Thanks @maodun96, that's a great suggestion. I'll give that a go.

It would still be nice to change settings via MQTT/HA so that HA is more of a supervisor and changes a setting a couple of times a day, rather than involved with screen brightness on every tap. But this is a nice to have and not critical.

[seaky]

Full device provisioning via mqtt will be implemented in v2.3.0.

I had to rewrite the json part to enable this. So from next release you will be able to configure whatever you want by mqtt.