Future Plans for the Dashboard?

[cw-kid]

Hi

So the dashboard is a nice extra feature and I am sure for a lot of users it will come in very handy. Especially for Vera users as Imperihome is now dead and Vera themselves don't have a dashboard app.

I am currently using The Home Remote app, which is excellent but very difficult to learn and setup a decent looking dashboard.

The MSR dashboard is just there and available out of the box. It's pulling in all devices and scenes for each room.

First thing I'd like to see is to be able to hide devices and scenes that you do not want to see on your dashboard page.

Here is my front garden

I don't know how fully featured you plan to make this dashboard app? But to be able to move tiles around and position them would be cool. Maybe custom icon images also.

Will it always be just a webpage ? Any plans for a wrapper app on the mobile devices ?

Thanks

[toggledbits]

Loads of plans for the dashboard, but it is a very low priority right now compared to getting the engine running. Everything you've mentioned is planned, and some of it, like custom icons already exist but are not documented. It currently supports custom views, arrangeable panels, the widgets themselves are highly customizable, and you can write new layouts for existing widgets and write entirely new widgets. But none of that is documented at this point, and won't be for a while. Again, developer preview, not finished product.

[3rdStng]

I'm on the edge of my seat and can't wait... I've been on and off researching a dashboard replacement for Imperihome and now that I've started my migration away from Vera to Hubitat, I am getting more serious about finding one. I don't know the first thing about json, so I don't know where to start on getting the MSR dashboard customizations going. I have started looking at The Home Remote, but I'm having a heck of a time to get a device to appear within their Designer App.

Knowing that you have lots in store for the dashboard, may I inquire/suggest on a feature or two? Things that I love about Imperihome, yet can't seem to locate in any other dashboard. Everything seems to be around their APIs.

Changing pages/panels via HTTP command
When the temp outside is hotter than inside, I have the tablet make the TTS announcement to close the windows/doors and then have the tablet switch to the page/panel that has all my door and window sensors

The blanking of the screen
When my house mode is <> home, I blank the screen. No sense in having it display when nobody is here. I also use nearby motion sensors to blank or activate the screen when someone is here. If nobody has been upstairs in a while, blank that tablet's screen.

Viewing of my IP Camera
I have a door/window sensor hooked up to my doorbell. When the bell is rung, it changes the tablet display to the IP camera at my front door so I can see who it is.

I also use the tablets main page as a clock and temperature readings, which I know most dashboards can do. But again. Learning curve on the Home Remote and I don't know json.

[cw-kid]

@3rdStng

Home Remote doesn't have those Imperihome type features inbuilt.

However on my Android tablets with Tasker and TNES, I am able to do the same things.

Take a look here

[3rdStng]

@cw-kid Thank you for this. I know this is slightly off topic, but I'm having a difficult time with The Home Remote to get a door/window sensor status to appear within my grid. Is there something I missed? Granted I did not watch all of the videos as the ones I skipped didn't really elude to adding in a device like you can do on the mobile app. I don't want to control the sensor, so a button seemed incorrect. I literally just want to display if the window is open or closed. Is that added as an Icon? Image? Or something else?

TIA