<![CDATA[New to M5Stack... A few questions about UIFlow]]>Hi,

I am new to this community. I started to develop an UI using UIFlow to show MQTT data from my home automation server.

However despite all my digging I could not answer the following:

  1. When I add Python code to UIFlow, I get an error message stating that the Blockly tab does not correspond to the Python code. Which is normal since I "hard code" additional stuff. Any fix for that?

  2. MQTT seems to cause some issues: when I use PahoMQTT to publish multiple messages, the M5Stack does not receive them. I have to make an individual connection for each publish that I want to show on the M5Stack. Same issue for retained messages: once a retained message is published, the M5Stack simply won't connect to the broker anymore. May I know what protocol for MQTT is behind UIFlow? This may be the issue.

  3. I do not find a way to turn the screen off and get some power saving mode in UIFlow. Are light sleep and deep sleep available, and if so is there a simple sample code to show how a button press can switch sleep mode until another button press wakes the device up?

Thanks a lot for your support to all these,

Regards,

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/topic/1631/new-to-m5stack-a-few-questions-about-uiflowRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 02:50:55 GMTSat, 18 Jan 2020 05:55:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to New to M5Stack... A few questions about UIFlow on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:11:08 GMT]]>@meatpuppet the problem is that while I am working on documents, I haven’t had time too look into the MQTT issues to see what’s happening (I’m not a coder so I can’t fix things) but when I have time I look into issues and give feedback to support. I see a lot of the same MQTT issues popping up and wish I could help. The 1.4.4 update caused a lot of issues, and so finding time to use and break things is something that needs a lot to f help and support from users. I am wondering if the current issues are due to connections between the device and the server.

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/7104https://community.m5stack.com/post/7104Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:11:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New to M5Stack... A few questions about UIFlow on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 08:48:35 GMT]]>Thanks for this quick first answer.

Is it necessary to switch to another environment to get all these features? Such as ESP32 library on Arduino...

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/7102https://community.m5stack.com/post/7102Sat, 18 Jan 2020 08:48:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New to M5Stack... A few questions about UIFlow on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:45:12 GMT]]>@meatpuppet
A1 you can try using the Execute code block but it only supports one line of code per block.
A2 Unknown
A3 Unknown

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