FR: Enable ImmichFrame to be a notification surface

[rgregg]

Description

I've been loving using ImmichFrame for different displays around the house. It's exactly what I was looking for. Now I'd like to take it up a little and make it even more useful - by integrating notifications from my other devices into the frame.

The idea: I'd like to be able to post notifications to the ImmichFrame API and have them appear on one or more devices. These notifications could be simple alerts ("someone's at the front door") or more complex versions of the same - like showing a live video of the front door camera.

Use Case

Makes my ImmichFrame devices even more valuable around the home - they can provide information about what's going on in the home when alerts happen and replace scenarios where I've used other home hub devices in the past.

Details

I'd want to keep the logic as simple as possible in ImmichFrame so that this project doesn't need to scale to support everything anyone imagines. The basic idea would be that ImmichFrame's WebApi would have a new API that could be used to submit an event, and then each device would receive those events and either render a simple message or host an IFrame that contains a more complex view.

These alerts would auto-dismiss after a timeout or through some other user interaction (e.g. clicking the dismiss button).

Pre-Submission Checklist

• This is a feature request and not a bug report

• I have checked for related issues and checked the documentation

[rgregg]

Is this "out of scope" for what ImmichFrame wants to be? I don't want to overextend the project beyond the design scope.

I started working on it over the weekend just to prototype and see how it would work. But before I go further I wanted to make sure this would be something you all think would make a good addition to the project.

[3rob3]

I think this is a really neat idea.

[GyroGearl00se]

I'm using ImmichFrame on my 12" Tablet which is wall mounted. I use it for SmartHome control (HomeAssistant). When not in active use - ImmichFrame will display images absolutely great.

As a SmartHome enthusiast I'd love the feature to display events / notifications. Things which come up in my mind:

• Someone rings the doorbell -> I'll take a snapshot and display the picture for ~15 seconds on the frame.
• WasteSchedule - If tomorrow the trash bin will be emptied -> Display a text or a wheeliebin icon in a corner.
• If air quality in a room is not as great - Display a suggestion to open the windows to let some fresh air in.
• ...

But I'd also understand if this feature would be beyond the inital idea of it's purpse 😃

[3rob3]

Yeah, that is probably beyond the scope if this app. I would think you could do that somehow with HA?

[GyroGearl00se]

Yeah, that is probably beyond the scope if this app. I would think you could do that somehow with HA?

The Doorbell part - yes. There I can use Home Assistant notification service to send command's like command_screen_on > command_webview /lovelace/door > 20s delay > command_webview /lovelave/default

This will interrupt the screensaver, open Home Assistant and navigate to a specific dashboard where I can see the live feed from the camera, and then it'll go back do the default dashboard again. After 30s inactivity, ImmichFrame will display photos again.

This works absolutely fine. Short interruption for the doorbell is acceptable :)
But the other two uses cases are notifications which should be displayed the whole time / until resolved.

Don't get me wrong. This request wasn't from me. I just wanted to support the idea. But as said - also understand that it might be out of scope :)

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I just did some testing with some overlay apps. If I disable DisplayLock on my device, it is possible to have an overlay on top of the ImmichFrame Screensaver.

Tasker / MacroDroid might be a solution! Customized overlays should be possible there.

[3rob3]

Yeah I was talking about the doorbell part and more advanced/specific stuff. I still think a notification service (text with timeout) would be cool.