Page Switching

[zeek247]

I've utilized your project to start my NextCloud calendar to great effect! With that in mind I wonder if there is a way to allow switching between pages like Home Assistant and the NextCloud calendar.

I apologize if it's bad etiquette to add a feature request as an "issue", this is my very first post on GitHub. Please let me know if there is a better place to do so if that is the case.

[gabeklavans]

Also would love to have this. I'm thinking of a couple different possible implementations:

• time based
  • could be nice because it could be entirely configured in the kiosk script, and avoid adding anything to the screen
• expose an API of some sort
  • would require spinning up some sort of program that would listen to events somehow, maybe a pipe or maybe HTTP requests, that could be used to control which url is used
  • would definitely add more bulk than time-based configuration, I think
• UI based
  • feels much more complicated to me, would require using some program/library to display a UI of some sort that allows to switch which page is displayed. might not even be worth considering for this project
• input event
  • not sure if it's even possible, especially with wayland, but if there could be a way to define a region of the screen to listen for touch events from, that could be used to cycle through pages
  • could use some external input device over usb that is listened for

[zeek247]

Another potential option I'm toying with would be utilizing a physical button on a GPIO to trigger loading different pages. A few options might be:

• Single button to cycle pages
• Two buttons to cycle forward and backwards
• Dedicated buttons for prescribed pages

Bonus option:

• Start/Stop a picture frame style slideshow for family photos.

I'm hoping to find some time to poke at this and see what I can figure out.

[gabeklavans]

So, I've basically solved my personal usecase by taking advantage of Homeassistant dashboards and https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/iframe/. This solution could conceivably be controlled using buttons thanks to the power of homeassitant, and offloads all of this sort of logic away from this simple kiosk project.