[APP][Pro] Dashboards

I can understand that, if you have spent a lot of time in creating something, it does not sit well when it does not work anymore due to causes out of your control.

Looking at the prior posts in this thread, I am sure @skogsaas is well aware of the current struggles with the current version of his app. And is likely working on improvements.

In the mean time: did you report your issue with the failing flow card to Athom? So that they can work on a solution.

Is the current Homey Dashboard an option to consider as a dashboard? It might not meet all your requirements, but at least it makes it possible for you to monitor your smart home.

Where did these four things go, I can’t see them in the list of Widgets that you can add to your Dashboard?

  • Device
  • Template
  • Text
  • Variable
    What do you do if you want to show the value of a variable?
    And in the old version you could show, for example, a Boolean and then have different icons depending on whether it was True or False.

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You should always keep in mind with an alphaversion (or even beta) of any software that things might work or not, and that there is a risk you will lose your work. Looking at your dashboard you sure put a lot of work in them… :roll_eyes:
For me I don’t care a minute about my old dashboard being gone. The current state of this app is still a bit troublesome for me, but I have enough patience to wait for it to improve

F.e. an issue I’m having:
When I create a new dashboard and add a card, I cannot delete the card. Can’t drag it to the trashcan, deleting using the the cardmenu (…) does not work.

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I think this is the option to set the Homey app to light/dark, but I want the dashboard on my tab to be light, like it currently is on my PC

On my tab, this dashboard is dark.

One problem I keep having is this:

I add a grid, then a card, but then the card cannot be deleted, nor can I add a capability to the card.

I’m sure I’m not the only one with this problem?

And what I don’t get is that when I copy a card, I’m getting an actual clone; any change I make to the original is also made to the copy. The only use for copying would be copying part of your dashboard to easily change it to different capabilities? F.e. a list of temperatures, copy the element, then change to moisture

Ah okay. On your tablet you open the dashboard in a web browser, right? Does your browser have an option to change the dark mode for the browser only? Or is this a formatting issue only related to Dashboards? I am not a user of Dashboards myself, so I am afraid I cannot help you further.

I was 3 month away from home. Came back and now my display looks like destroyed:

What happened? Do I need to start from scratch?

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The app is updated and is not backward compatible. The best option is to build your dashboard(s) from scratch again.

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Did the following steps:

  1. deinstall app and all Dashboard devices

  2. restart Homey

  3. install 1.4 test

  4. create one dashboard device

  5. delete all api keys

  6. create new api key

  7. use local access and login with ID and api key

i guess you use Grid and Cards for your example. How do you create the Text on Top of the Cards, like “Entrance and Gallery” ?
can you post an image in edit mode?

My basic hierarchy is: List → Sections → Section

  • as a Sections widget with sections breaks differently with screen sizes, I put a List around it to get some vertically independent parts (with different horizontal widths) - because all sections within a Sections widget also have the same width

The Section itself can get a label if you clock on the breadcrumb for the Section on top

This is valid for a few widgets that you can configure more if you click on the breadcrumbs on top

Hope this helps

Thank you, that works. Can i adjust the font size?
i would like to get to my old dashboard:

and can i have the vertical sections fill up space and not at the same horizontal level
i want to have another section where i painted the red circles…

I think font size cannot be changed … one of my permanant request to have more influence on styling :slight_smile:

for the section/section model: not he always have the same height vertically if the appear in the same row: but the advantage is: if you open it on the mobile phone, you get them all in 1 single column, and there they all have the right size then …

e.g. try to make the browser window very small so that you see what I mean

I guess that’s more felxible than the grid after all … at least on different devices.

yeah, but if you only want to optimize for one device in my house, then it limits a lot. would that work with grid and cards?

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I guess it should work with grid and cards too …
My advice: create another dashboard(s) and use them as playground to test out these things first

personal preference I would say:

  • on the desktop screen I have enough space, so I don’t mind (it still has some grid like character and you may see at one of my older posts)
  • on the mobile the concept with sections and card works very well (no waste of space)