LG TV notification using node-red-contrib-lgtv

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Hi All, I only recently started using Node Red (about a week ago) version 1.3.5 and have found ideal for needs. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi and so far everything wanted to use it for has worked, very impressed. I have a LG smart TV and noticed the Node Red has a LG set of nodes called “node-red-contrib-lgtv” so I installed them and tried sending a notification to my TV using the toast node which again worked first time, the only issue is that the notification only stayed on the screen 5 seconds, so easy to miss.

I noticed in some other ‘Home Automation’ software namely. ‘Home Assistant’ that it seem to have an option for a persistent notification, which I assume means that the notification stay on the screen until manually cancelled.

Does the Node Red LG interface have a method of creating a persistent notification?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Ernie

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This is a question that would be best posed to the node’s author on it’s GitHub page GitHub - hobbyquaker/node-red-contrib-lgtv: Node-RED Nodes to control LG webOS Smart TVs

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Hi, Thanks for your feedback, I'll give your suggestion a try.

Ernie

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I've had a brief look at the code for this node (I use it too but don't really use the notifications) There's not a lot exposed in the toast node, the only option is you can set msg.url which will make the notification clickable to open a url,
There does seem to be more options in the underlying API that it uses, for example setting modal to true/false but to expose these would require a change to the node.com.webos.notification | webOS Open Source Edition

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Have you tried sending multiple notifications in a row. As the system toast notification should display them one after another. This would atleast extend the display time.

reading https://webostv.developer.lge.com/design/webos-tv-system-ui/notifications/ there is an alert notification, I don't use the node, just wondering if it is exposed there.

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Hi, thanks for your feedback, I have only been using Node Red for just over a week now so not sure how to go about setting the msg.url as you suggest and what would I set it too?

Ernie

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Hi Ernie,

I've had another look at this and its possible to do what I think you want using the generic request node rather than the toast, The LGTV has 2 types of notifications toasts which by their nature appear in the top corner and go after 5 seconds or alerts which are more prominant and require user action, they appear in the middle of the screen. There are also a lot more things you can set in an alert like title and labels & actions on the buttons. The full details of the API are here com.webos.notification | webOS Open Source Edition

I've put together a basic flow that demonstrates a peristent alert with a titel and a dismiss button give this a try:

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Hi Sam,

That’s fantastic, just what I was after. I would not have known where to start, but now I see what you have done I think I understand it.

Thank you for spend the time to work it out I really appreciate your effort. I am sure it will be useful for several projects. 

Thanks again.

Ernie

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