Features Wishlist

Larger / full-screen alert card on big screens

stubersa2004Suggested this wish ·

Board: Guition 10.1″ JC8012P4A1 V3, firmware 0.60.0 (layout 1280x800 5x5 149dpi standard)

What I’d like On the 10.1″ screen the alert card is quite small compared to the glass. I understand it is sized in millimetres on purpose, so it looks the same on every board, but on a big wall panel it leaves most of the screen unused. Seen from a few metres away, the title and the subtitle are hard to read.

My use case The screen hangs next to my front door. I’m a volunteer firefighter, and Home Assistant shows pager alarms on it as a red, flashing alert (title “Feuerwehralarm”, subtitle with the call text, up to ~250 characters). In that moment I need to read the address at a glance while putting on my shoes, so the bigger the better.

Possible ways to do it

  • A screen setting, for example Alert size: Normal / Large / Full screen. It would apply to every alert on that screen, so show_alert keeps its seven fields.
  • And/or an optional size field (normal / large / full) in the esp_screens_show_alert event, so a fire alarm can be full screen while a waste reminder stays normal.

With a bigger card, the font of the title and subtitle should grow with it, not just the card.

Thanks for the great project. Tessera has replaced a tablet for us, and this would make the big screen perfect for alarms.

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