LocalDeck Printing Key Names Fails, Old Network Issue Still Exists

BertQuodge

I’ve used a LocalDeck for a while and I’ve printed key names a few times from the HA localdeck configurator. I don’t know if adding a second LocalDeck to my setup, which I’ve just completed, has caused this issue or something else. When I generate a keyboard setup on the localdeck configurator, running on HA, the PDF that is created has a header & footer etc but no key names or key “squares” are displayed. This occurs on my new LocalDeck & the original one (which used to work). Any ideas how to fix this?

When I first compiled and uploaded a LocalDeck config from ESPHome to the new LocalDeck the LocalDeck booted and then dropped over 80% of pings I sent to it & HA won’t connect to it over wifi. The LocalDeck won’t stay connected to WiFi well enough to push any ESPHome code to it, I need to attach the LocalDeck to ESPHome via USB to gain access to the LocalDeck again. I’ve had a similar issue before with my first LocalDeck, where I need to comment out these lines to make the LocalDeck usable:

#Comment Out
#esp32_improv:
#status_indicator: improv_status
#authorizer: keypad_button_01
#improv_serial: {}

Also add this to wifi:
wifi:
power_save_mode: none

Would it be worth making these changes the default? Luckily I’ve seen this issue before, but I wasted hours on it the first time.

Thanks

RebeccaH

Hi @BertQuodge

Thanks for dropping by with that. I will definitely pass on your comments re taking those component out of the default config.

With regards to the PDF, I haven’t come across this issue myself. Can you see if you experience the same problem here?

https://blog.mylocalbytes.com/tools/localdeck-configurator

BertQuodge

RebeccaH Hi I used the online configurator to create my labels for the new deck. I did have a strange issue with the online configurator though. If I enter a single letter for the label of the key, the configurator jumps as if I’ve pressed the print icon. The only way I could enter a key label was to paste it in, or type one letter at a time and then come back out of ‘print preview’ to enter the next letter. I had this issue with 2 PCs, both running Linux Mint and Firefox.

RebeccaH

Hi @BertQuodge

That’s odd! We’ve not come across this before, but appreciate you bringing it to our attention.

I also use Firefox on Linux and haven’t been able to reproduce the issue. Could you please see if there are any errors in the developer console?

https://balsamiq.com/support/faqs/browser-console/#mozilla-firefox

The above may help. 🙂