Card overhaul

[rgc99]

The card is getting a bit of work over. Might take you up on the offer for some testing or input @evercape.

First thing is to upgrade to Irrigation Unlimited 2024.7.0 or pull the latest from the repository. The existing card should still work as before.

Next copy irrigation-unlimited-card.js from the repository which is under the dist directory. This should go in config/www/community/irrigation-unlimited-card folder on your system. Backup/delete the existing .js and .gz files. You will need to clear the browser cache.

Any problems restore the original file or reinstall from HACS.

[evercape]

Morning Robert. Currently sailing and will definitely test when back in 2 weeks. Thanks. M

[evercape]

Hi Robert, I am back now and will test.

Somehow the 2024.7.0 version did not update automatically, probably because it being a pre-release. I did however managed to update it without any issues using the update service call. HA is on all the latest version too.

I then downloaded and deleted

config/www/community/irrigation-unlimited-card/irrigation-unlimited-card.js
config/www/community/irrigation-unlimited-card/irrigation-unlimited-card.js.gz

and uploaded:
https://github.com/rgc99/irrigation-unlimited-card/blob/master/dist/irrigation-unlimited-card.js

to
config/www/community/irrigation-unlimited-card/irrigation-unlimited-card.js

Then I re-started Home assistant and also re-freshed the dashboard.

Logfiles show no error when searching for irrigation.

The following screenshot shows the versions:

The card looks the same (I temporarily enabled a schedule since all were off as South Africa being in winter now:

Am I missing something? Could you please send a screenshot on what changes to look for?

Thanks
Martin

[rgc99]

That's not the new version. The menu icon to the right was changed from a switch to a menu. Perhaps clear the cache.

The card should look at the outset much the same. A lot of the changes as subtle but important. Here's some of the changes.

• The card editor has been fixed. The 'Show controllers' box is now visible.
• When you expand a zone it shows the timeline. Previously it only showed the history. There is now an option to show upcoming scheduled events. future_span does not seem to work when changing schedule over the next few days that lie within future_span irrigation_unlimited#162
• Entities can now be renamed. Issue Irrigation card does not display zones or sequences anymore #10.
• There is now client side count down timers. When something is running the timers will update according to the refresh_interval parameter. However reducing this value applies more stress on HA. Now these timers are handled by the browser and updated every seconds with no load on HA at all.
• Pause/resume controls have been added to the menu on all levels.

[evercape]

Thanks Robert, cache resolved it, apologise I had forgotten that.

It's perfectly working now. I like the blinking text for paused sequence as well as the browser second count down without pressure on HA - that is awesome.

A few things:

1. Pause/resume is perfect it only shows up on zones/sequences when they are running, ie pause shows up when running and cancel when paused. however, on controller level pause/resume shows up whilst nothing is running. is that intended
2. Sort order of timeline is descending. Would you consider to show the following: very last time zone ran (and in grey not black), then ascending blue the next timelines, and after that also greyed out descending the last zones already ran. In my mind you want the upcoming list of runs in ascending order. nice touch with the very next item to run having a different icon ;-)
3. I also noticed that when there are no runs scheduled (like in winter now) the timeline is not shown. maybe check even if the next run is scheduled in six months or so it should show.
4. when you mentioned the icon change, I been thinking that the mdi:sprinkler-variant icon could easily be adapted to your specific irrigation unlimited icon. See below what chat gpt came up with.

Amazing overhaul of the card, well done and thanks!
Martin

[rgc99]

Hi Martin,

1. I have added some code to hide/unhide these menu items as appropriate.
2. Sort order is descending for history items, ascending for all others. Then the first history item is promoted to the head of the list.
3. If there is nothing in the near future and no recent history then there is nothing to display. Could perhaps search ahead for the next year.
4. Thanks for the icon's. Certainly something to consider.

Grab the latest from the repo and let me know. Thanks for your help.

Robert

[evercape]

Thanks Robert, all working perfectly fine.

Have not done any extensive edge-case testing (due to winter) but so far no issues and all looking perfect.

One last minor thing:

If I click on the TEXT of zones, then it does not expand the timelines.

However, if I click on the TEXT of sequences, it does expand the zones under the sequence.

The expanding ALWAYS works when clicking on the icons.

Maybe just something to be consider for consistency purpose.

Cheers
Martin