Widget Forge – Flow-driven dashboard widgets for Homey

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Hi everyone,

I’ve released a new Homey app called Widget Forge and wanted to briefly introduce it here.

The main idea came from my own dashboard use: quite often I wanted widgets that are not tied to one specific device or one hardcoded purpose.
Sometimes I just want to display exactly the information I need, formatted the way I want, and update it through flows.

So Widget Forge is basically my attempt to make that possible.

It is meant to provide custom dashboard widgets that can be filled and updated with Flow Cards.
That means the widget itself is more like a visual container, while the actual logic and data come from your own flows.

My goal is to keep it:

  • flexible

  • easy to understand

  • visually clean

  • and useful in real dashboards

The first widget concepts are focused on things like structured lists, large value displays, grouped data blocks and similar elements.
So not a widget for one specific app, but a small toolbox for building your own dashboard style inside Homey.

I’m trying to make it useful for many kinds of scenarios, like status overviews, energy values, room information, reminders, warnings, or just nicely formatted custom text/data.

The app is available here: Widget Forge | Homey

I’d be happy to hear from you.

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Looks great, Will give it a try.

Would it be possible to have say a camera snapshot sent to the widget and displayed?

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Interesting idea. I think the first thing to check is whether your camera app exposes the snapshot as an image tag in Homey Flows.

If yes, then a dedicated snapshot widget could in principle be possible.

If not, it would likely require camera-specific handling, and that would be outside the concept of Widget Forge.

So do you actually see a snapshot/image tag from your camera in Flows?

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Yeah my reolink doorbell exposes a camera snapshot tag

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Version 1.1.0 is already done. It includes a new widget that was also shown in the preview images, but until now it was still in an alpha stage and not yet ready for release.

Once version 1.1.0 is online and certified, I can take a closer look at camera snapshots.

In the meantime, you’re welcome to try the current version and later also version 1.1.0. After that, it would really help if you could describe a bit more precisely how you would expect camera images to appear in a widget while still fitting the style of the widgets already featured — for example with or without a frame, a title, separators, or maybe additional information. That would help me assess both the feasibility and how well it could fit into the current concept.

Also, could you send me a screenshot of the Flow card with the image tag selected? That would be very helpful.

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Great, thanks.

Something like this would be perfect if it’s possible? Using the Gemini App which would give an answer tag.

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Thank you, but what I meant is a flow card with an Image Tag. Something like this card

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, but instead of #Temperature, your snapshot. If that does not work, Widget Forge would not be able to show it, as the data source must be a Homey tag. Anyway, Widget Forge can only display data not interact with devices.

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Version 1.1.0 is available as test version during certification: Widget Forge | Homey

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Hi, Yeah , My doorbell has an image tag from the camera. I send this to Gemini AI app and it sends an analysed image tag and answer tag describing who is at my front door. I get this as a push notification.

Wondered on whether it would be possible to achieve the same/similar to the screenshot above which is from HA using your widget. ( Image tag and answer flow tag)