Displaying message doesn't pause current plugin

[PiotrMachowski]

When a dynamic plugin (e.g. pong clock, game of life or snake) is running and /api/message endpoint is used both of them are displayed at the same time.

[BrookeDot]

This is the way the message plugin is supposed to work (for better or for worse).

Could you describe what you were hoping the message plugin would do? It sounds like you'd like it to switch to a new plugin mode?

[PiotrMachowski]

Well, at this moment message is displayed over the dynamic content so everything ends up as a flickery mess. I solved it in my fork by creating "Empty Screen" plugin and turning it on for a duration of a message

[BrookeDot]

at this moment message is displayed over the dynamic content so everything ends up as a flickery mess.

Yeah, that's why I don't use the message plugin, so glad you were able to solve it. I think @kohlsalem and @gelse intended the API to be simple (see #100) but as you mentioned, it doesn't always work with dynamic content.

I solved it in my fork by creating "Empty Screen" plugin and turning it on for a duration of a message

Would a simple PR into this project be possible, maybe it could be an option in the config to enable your plugin?

[PiotrMachowski]

My fork contains several other functionalities that make it more useful for Home Assistant users, I plan to make add them to this project, but I would have to split it into several PRs. The other part is that I ran out of memory after including all my changes, so I had to disable plugins that are not useful for my use case.

At this moment you can check it out here:

https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/ikea-led-obegraensad

[kohlsalem]

I see the point. „Upsi“. Messages should have been a Plugin as well, switching back afterwards. With the plugins I tested, it worked 😳.

Quick fix could be to switch to a plugin w/o issues. Or to suppress any of the callbacks to the plugin, while a message shows. Both slightly ugly.

I don’t use my display currently anymore…