New: The Homey part of the app is now fully translated. Languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, KO, NL, NO, PL, RU, SV.
Improved: Extra alignment space beside the icon only appears for the “icon + time + event” layout. Events without a time also no longer show that gap.
All translations are produce with the help of AI, so I’m honestly not sure if they’re 100% accurate. If you notice anything that looks completely wrong in your native language, please give me a heads-up. These are the languages I currently support: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, KO, NL, NO, PL, RU, and SV. If you’d like to see your own language on the list, just let me know.
I… think I’m blind… I see posts about the “very effective and clear user manual” but I’m struggling to even find a manual. Is there a 101 read starting here manual somewhere?
you click the gear icon in the bottom-right of the screen. On the left side the Editor will open after clicking.
In the second line of that newly opened editor, next to the text “editor tools”, there are 4 icons. The most right icon, containing the “?”, will open the manual (on the right side of the screen).
The manual is usually very clear. For some advanced possibilities it might require soms basic knowledge of how the Dashboard Studio works. So don’t try to run before you can walk
I submitted it for stable a couple of days ago, but it’s still being held for review. Previous updates went really fast, but I guess because of the high amount of changes (like everything being translated and the new flow cards) they are going to do a more thorough review. Plus, it was an official holiday yesterday here in the Netherlands.
Not every new feature is documented in the manual yet. I am planning to rewrite a lot of parts when I am done overhauling every widget, and maybe do some video tutorials too. If you understand the basics, I think you can find your way in Dashboard studio. Any questions, just post them. I am happy to help.
Running into an issue with graphs… Maybe it’s because I’m still quite new to this (in itself amazing!) app. But I can only get them to show the last X number of datapoints, not related to time. I would like to have an X-axis showing the time of the measurements, and if a value is stable it should give the same value every interval of time… Right now if a value is absolutely stable, the graph just stops as there’s no new datapoints. This make a graph pretty much useless in showing the development of a certain value over time? Also when I have the graph enable the X-axis the whole graph immediately turns into a flatline, regardless of the actual values? What am I doing wrong??
Hi @Satoer ,
I am trying to create 4 graphs from the same datasource (day/week/month/year) and send them to DS via the send insight card. But it looks like it is not possible set an identifier/tag for it. Am I missing something or is there a workaround for this?
I shall look into that. Apparently the “warmtepomp” does only log changes.
You are doing nothing wrong. This is a problem reported before by a user and it is fixed in the current test version. The current test version is currently in review by Athom, and I expect it to go to the stable version Monday. Or you can install the test version, but this has a high frequency of updates. Usually a big improvement or new widget, followed by several updates of feature changes and bug fixes coming from the community over here.
You are not missing something. It creates it’s own topic (identifier tag). You can find it in the data stream explorer (or the dropdown inside a dynamic value):
This will also create a tag with the data (RAW data json) and you could send this tag to the dashboard with your own topic. It will send the data twice though. On time using the Insight source topic and once using the custom topic.
Yes, got it. Thanks!
Other question: is there a way to only show the dates on the graphs?
For hourly graphs the time makes sense, but for daily/weekly/monthly the date is enough
I repeatedly find that when moving or resizing, I can only move one grid size.
If an equally different object is selected and then the object to be modified is selected again, it works correctly for a while. This has been occurring for several DS versions.
Is there anything that can be done about this, as it occurs approximately every 5 to 10 actions (moves or resizes, using Chrome on Windows, both latest versions)?
I noticed this also a couple of times, but only when resizing. Sometimes it just resizes one gridspace and then “locks” or something. Reselecting it solves the problem. I did not notice this problem when moving widgets though. To be honest, I have no idea why this happens. I can not recreate this bug by doing some steps that 100% triggers this. I think it has to do something with the browser using the internal drag and selection engine that fights with the DS method somehow. When this happens I see multiple things being “dragged”. So I think I somehow select multiple elements using the browsers native drag system.
Do you think we are we talking about the same problem? Because like I said, it does not happen in my case with moving a widget. Only when re-scaling. It is also not that often as you describe it maybe once every 25 - 50 times.
Text Widget: Added animations and effects when content changes, featuring multiple transition styles and an optional random mode.
Image Widget: Added animations and effects for picture URL or animated SVG updates, including Live Refresh support.
Graph Widget: Added optional display smoothing with adjustable strength for creating smooth-line charts.
Graph Widget: Added optional tick marks on the X and Y axes, with customizable spacing, size, color, and offset.
Improvements
Gauge Widget: Updated the icon, text, and typography sections. The editor now neatly hides unused options. Added custom display min/max, optional bar colors from gradients at the current value, and a “Keep Trailing Zeros” feature.
Slider: Added custom display min/max (MQTT range remains unchanged) and refreshed the typography for the caption, value, and unit.
Icon Widget: Redesigned the icon slide-out, introducing a separate active icon that can automatically inherit from the base icon.
Light Grid: Overhauled the icon slide-out and updated the typography for light names. The control panel now auto-hides when not in active use.
Widgets with Icons: Introduced five new icon styles (Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Fill, Duotone). Added offset and rotation options. Off/Base icons can now inherit from the On icon for buttons, menus, and more.
Graph Widget: Text and typography sections now hide unused fields to reduce clutter. Curves are smoother and stay within data peaks, while lines and fills now properly break at null gaps.
Insight Flow Cards: Time steps are now evenly spaced with forward-filled values. Future or missing data is set to null, pairing perfectly with Graph gaps.
Fixes
Menu and Light Grid: Reordering items in the editor via drag and drop is fully functional again.
Editor: Moving and resizing widgets stays responsive and no longer interferes with text selection.
Lots of other smal fixes.
Overall
I updated all the widgets that did not support the new icon and typography slideouts to use the new styles. I also made lots of small improvements like hiding unused settings and rearranging options. Old dashboards will automatically migrate to this new version. I hope it will not cause too much inconvenience if something does not migrate perfectly but I think the manual adjustments needed will be minimal. Hopefully this is one of the last big migrations we will need to do. Please let me know if something really badly migrates.
Animations!
I added animated transitions for the Image widget (URL and SVG) and the Text widget. This is especially nice for users who use their dashboard as an infographic with changing texts and images. So @Martijn_C … Please let me know. I won’t get mad if you do not use them… just disappointed
(Just an image, pressing this “button” won’t do anything )
When you make the text or image dynamic and send new markdown text, an image URL, or SVG data, it smoothly transitions into the new value. Try the demo here for the text and Try the demo here for the image widget (Press the “animate” button).
There are 17 transitions built in. From extreme swipes, to a smooth fade transition. I also added a random option that randomises all of them but I mostly built that in for demo purposes. For live dashboards it is way more professional to stick to a single transition.
I also added the ability to send markdown as a single line of text. You can use \n for a line break.
Graph
I fixed bugs and added new features. I also changed a couple of default styling options. This probably will not be visible on old dashboards unless you reset the dashboard with the “Reset all widget default settings” button in the “Dashboard Environment” section.
Smoothing
The “Smooth line” setting now has a smoothing value between 0 and 100.
I also improved the algorithm, the smoothed line does not overshoot any more.
The Graph now has a new section called “Ticks” where you can enable and style tick marks on the X and Y axes.
Unavailable values and Insight flow card
I improved the Insight flow card. It now sends “null” instead of 0 values when sensor data is not available for that period, like for future data or if the sensor was offline. The graph widget also no longer draws a line for that period.
The card now also samples the last known value for a time sample if a sensor is stable and only updates on changes. Please let me know if this fixed the problem for you @Kaspar_1
Fixed
Date
It is now possible to show only the date in the graph.
If you need to adjust something between 0 and 1 you can show a value of 0 to 100. An optional unit is also new.
Gauge
Just like the slider the Gauge widget can now show a custom display range where it maps the input value to the new range.
Also new in the gauge is the “Solid color at value” setting. When this option is enabled the entire bar changes to the solid color at that specific value instead of using a gradient.
The gauge has an extra option to force decimals. If a value is “18” and you set 1 decimal place you will see “18.0”.
Light Grid / Menu
Rearranging items did not always work but this is now fixed.
And so many users in a few months! Do you know if those 960 installations are actually installed at this moment, excluding any uninstallations (for whatever reason)?
First, some notable observations after startup and the automatic conversion of the dashboard to v1.9.0:
the colors of the gauge. Only the unit text has retained its color; the other texts have switched to (I think) default colors. All text components had the same blue color like °C. Before Case had the value “none”, but after update it (Caption) is “uppercase”.
By the way, I still secretly hope that I won’t have to use a gauge for this in the future.
24-hour insight charts only display values from around 0:00 (day transition or time of automatic v1.9 installation?). Same for (smooth) line graphs. The Homey insight graphs shows all 24 hours data.
the animated SVG with news photos fit well next to the Markdown table with headlines before v1.9. Now the photos are displayed too large, so they no longer fit. The image option “Fit container” disabled makes the entire image disappear.
A lot of nice new or improved features. Thank you!
A few notes regarding version 1.9.0:
animations of text components do not work if the “Scroll overflow content” option is enabled, regardless of whether the scrollbar is visible (I understand) or not
Slider “Added custom display min/max”: make decimals optional. A volume with value 25.00 looks strange
give gauges an animation for value bar changes as well (clearly visible for power consumption and solar yield)
an active icon (icon widget) cannot be changed to Style Regular
sometimes the object border of a component does not match the position or size, making the object harder to select (e.g., when text is part of an object). This was already the case before v1.9.0.
Please let me know. I won’t get mad if you do not use them… just disappointed 
