Automatic Refresh without Move-to-next-page

[vamadou]

Hi,
First, a big thanks for this tool, definitely made my E10002 worth the money
I have been using it to display a one page dashboard that is regularly refreshed for quite some time, without issues.
Now I am trying to add some extra pages that would only be displayed via an automation/trigger in HA for a small amount of time (like a do not disturb sign indicating I am in a call in the office) and then back to the dashboard when done.

I may have missed something but I can't find a way in the UI to not have the device to automatically go to next page on regular interval. I want the device to simply continuously refresh the main page, discarding the other pages that would be managed via HA.

My understanding is that the auto_cycle_timer is always called from the manage_run_and_sleep script, but again I probably have missed something. Could it be that the auto move-to-next page is automatically enabled if more than one page is present and refresh is enabled?

Thanks in advance

[koosoli]

Hi,

thank you for the kind words.

Yes, this is absolutely possible out-of-the-box!

1. Disable Auto-Cycling: In the ESPHome Designer UI, open Device Settings (gear icon in the top bar) and uncheck "Enable Automatic Page Cycling".
2. Control via Home Assistant: Since the ESPHome Native API is enabled, ESPHome Designer automatically generates and registers separate button entities for each page. You can simply call this action in your Home Assistant automation:

yaml
action: button.press
target:
  entity_id: button.<your_device_name>_go_to_page_2 # Page indices are automatically generated

Alternatively, you can call the exposed script service directly with the target page index:

action: esphome.<your_device_name>_change_page_to
data:
  target_page: 1 # 0-indexed (0 = Page 1, 1 = Page 2, etc.)

[vamadou]

Thanks a lot for the answer ... the main issue was definitely me not noticing that the Device Settings page has a scrollbar and that more options are located at the bottom of the screen 🤦