Use font awesome on touch Control pages

Cool - BTW - where you able to access my sense cloud energy meter - just wondering if any problems seeing it way over there across the pond?

Ok, beta available here: https://github.com/howartp84/FontAwesome/releases

PreRequisites:

• Need to install Pillow package, to enable coloured icons. "sudo pip install Pillow" should do the trick
• Need to register for a free account at https://cloudconvert.com/ - this is doing the conversions from SVG to PNG. You can do 15 minutes worth of conversions per day for free, at ~5 seconds per conversion, which is around 180 icons per day.
• OPTIONALLY register for a Pro account at https://fontawesome.com/

The plugin comes with the v5.8.2 free icons builtin; you can download and save Pro icons from https://fontawesome.com/download (the Desktop version) and extract the content of the "svgs" folder into \Library\Application Support\Perceptive Automation\Indigo 7.3\Plugins\FontAwesome.indigoPlugin\Contents\Server Plugin\svgs. (There's a text file called "Paste PRO files here.txt"

Once installed, grab your CloudConvert API key from https://cloudconvert.com/dashboard/api/v1/keys and enter it in the plugin config.

Create either a "Font Awesome Single Icon" device, or a "Font Awesome Downloader" device.

The former asks for an icon name (eg 'alarm-clock') and style (eg 'solid') taken from the FontAwesome icon gallery at https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery
The latter lists all the icons in the plugin, free and/or PRO, for you to multi-select.

Upon saving, the icon(s) you've selected/typed will download. You can go back in at any time and select or type (a) new icon(s) - they'll download when you hit save.

See the Indigo log for the folder location.

Have fun, see you how you go...

when I try to install pillow I get

when I try to install pillow I get

Try Jay's method of installing Pip on your Mac

https://forums.indigodomo.com/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=19126

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 FatBook:~ jay$ sudo easy_install pip

Took me half a day to get Pillow installed as my version of Pip was 12 major versions out of date!

I’m Windows not Mac so I haven’t a clue when it comes to packages like that; I know @autolog is including pre-compiled version in his roon plugin, but I’m so far behind I don’t know if my version will work!


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thanks, installing

sudo easy_install pip

first allowed me to install Pillow with

sudo pip install Pillow

OK, looks like it is working - to test I created device called Light Bulb FA - I see it in my device list but not sure what to do with it?

Normally I reference .png graphics on my control pages - I have one for unknown state, one for on state and one for off state - how do I use the FA device?

The plugin stores images into path given in Log.

You need to move them, and rename if using +on/+off versions as you would any other image.


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OK, need to run out but will try that later - so be be sure I understand - that path leads to the FA plug-in. So I need to show package contents to look inside. I think if you make any changes it might be better to have them stored in a normal folder that can be specified with a path statement?

Pretty cool so thanks for making!

No, the saved (output) png images are saved in ..../IndigoWebServer/Images/Controls just like any other images you’d saved yourself.

I didn’t put them into device or static subfolders because it depends what you’re using them for as to which subfolder you need them in.


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OK - thx - so once the image is created then the device is of no use and can be deleted?

Yes.


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