Does anyone have a suggestion for software to manage text I’m displaying or wanting to display on my marquees? For example, I may want to display a message on the 15th of every month reminding me to pay a bill, and display an alert that the garage door is open, and an alert that I got a text message from someone. Certain messages would have a shelf life (like text message alerts would stay for 5 minutes, but the garage door open message would stay until it was closed). I have Home Assistant and I use NodeRed and MQTT quite a bit so if there was a tie in to those it would be good. Notify.Events looks like the closest thing I can find so far.
HA and node red is all you need with wled and all of what you have said could be done with scrolling text effect and using one of the pixel art tools for images . The scheduling and automation part for alerts does not have anything to do with wled though and you have to build that in HA as with any other automation . We used both text effects and pictures from node red same as this example which you can import in node red . Alerts in HA would be the same as phone notifications but route that to wled
NR_SEND_TEXT_flows.json.txt (2.4 KB)
Yeah, I was hoping for something with a UI already built, something that would handle multiple “classes” of messages, etc. I get that the WLED wouldn’t handle the management of content but I thought someone here might have been trying to do the same thing I’m trying to do and would have some advice. It’s probably going to amount to setting up a lot of automations in HA that monitor states and events and trigger actions to update the marquee.
Yeah some are trying to create templates for others to use like the example above but automation will never set itself up for the first time no matter what magic you will use , there is also wled flows somewhere in node red which is also good start to look at . You might also have a better luck with HA forum as the question seems not really related to wled else both HA integration and examples like above and others is enough for wled related automation but yeah needs a bit of work and nothing is perfect fit for all use cases , if you find easier options then please let us know