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@Satoer little bug with the coloring?

@Yann_Liqueur and @SunBeech Thank you for your reply.

After some additional testing:

  • After touching the switch on the physical device itself, it does indeed take a moment for the result to appear in Dashboard Studio, but at the same speed as in the standard Homey app. So this has nothing to do with Dashboard Studio.

  • When using the switch in the standard Homey app: everything works as expected in Dashboard Studio.

  • When using the button/switch widget in Dashboard Studio: the button itself changes color and the physical switch responds, but the related image widget when switched on doesn’t display. However, when I enter developer mode (the gear icon in the bottom right turns red), the images and text values ​​respond immediately in their widgets as they should after pressing the button in Dashboard Studio (I don’t think it’s a latency issue).
    The image has a lower Z value than the switch.

What browser and operating system are you using? Is this also on that Samsung Android system?

I’ll add this to the list to check :+1:

This was on Windows/Chrome

My darling wife is dependent from that website data to start household machines.

Is there an other way to make this data easily visible?

I took a quick look at the Slimladen Service website. It does not seem to have an API, which is a way to retrieve data from a website. I also find it unclear what information this site actually provides. It looks like it just shows dynamic energy prices to help you charge a car battery when it is cheapest? Is your wife also using this to start power hungry equipment?

Have you tried the app Power by the Hour? This fetches dynamic energy prices and Dashboard Studio allows you to dump that data directly into a graph widget.

I use it the same way:

Good Morning Satoer,

Thanks for your mail, appreciated.

The darling wifey looks to the red and green for starting up her consuming monsters.

I solved this with an iPad split screen, on the left the data from the P1 dongle, on the right the data from slim laden. (See att.)

Have the PbtH app installed, it changes a table lamp to the color green when the power price drops below 0 and starts the pond pumps on the 8 ‘lowest price’ hours.

Long story short; the one glimpse at the dashboard is very handy.

Brgds. Hans

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I must be really blind, can’t find the fontsize for a group title?

Btw, the spikes in my powergraphs are caused by our Quooker which apparently peaks some 2 times per hour (you also see the red light on the device itself light up)

@zakraket I don’t think you’re blind.

How to enhance my graph?

  • The negative scale differs from the positive scale on the y-axis, which is unusual and gives a wrong impression of the data; auto number has to be used
  • I would like rounded numbers on the y-axis with dynamic values/auto numbers. In my example the y-axis could have steps of 200 (positive and negative)
  • I would like the hour numbers on the x-axis, not the number of measurements
  • the 0-line mark for values ​​not yet measured is debatable

Dear @Satoer First of all: what an amazing tool! This is so much better than the standard Homey dashboard feature.

While migrating the Homey Dashboard to Dashboard Studio, I encountered a “difficulty” that I can’t seem to resolve. For switching my whole home to “day” or “night”, I use 2 buttons (day and night). When day is pressed, some flows run and the day-button shows “on”. At the same time, I want the night-button to show “off”. (How) can this be done in Dashboard Studio?

Thanks :blush:

So you have linked the output topic to trigger an action in a flow. There is also a Then card available to send data to Dashboard Studio. You will see a field called initial state (in the action and behavior section of the button) though I should probably rename this to just state. If you click the chain link icon to enable dynamic values and add a topic, you can send true or false to that topic from a Homey flow to set the state of the switch.

Thanks @Satoer That did the trick!

It is not possible to create a horizontal bar graph with the basic graph widget in Dashboard Studio. To be honest, this is the first time I have seen it used this way. You could technically create one using multiple arrow widgets stacked together with a zero size arrow head, which leaves just the bar. You would then dynamically change the size and color of each bar using Homey flows, but I would not recommend this endeavor :sweat_smile:.

You can already use the bar graph with dynamic prices, though not on its side. It is possible to show values below zero in a different color. However, the way Slimladen Service does it is by marking the cheapest prices in another color. This will be a bit more complicated to do in Dashboard Studio, but it is not impossible.

The way I would do this is to layer two graph widgets on top of each other, one with red bars and one with green. Then you would input the Power by the Hour prices into a Homey script to find the cheapest prices of the day. You would make the other values in that array zero and send it to the green graph. For the red graph, you would do the same but make the cheapest prices zero. You also need to find the highest price and set that as the maximum value for both graphs. Maybe next week I could make an example for you if that is what you would like to have.

All the other information on your split screen iPad should be no problem to display.

Added to the list of things to check :+1:

Thank you for your detailed explanation, Saroer.
In our current setup, you can see at a glance which times are the cheapest to run the washing machine or dishwasher.
In your dashboard, it would be a very welcome addition if you could produce something similar in a simple and accessible way.

I can manage fairly well with flows, but as soon as scripts come into play, my brain tends to switch off rather quickly. :wink:

Grtz Hans

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Hi, great app! Thanks.

I am working on a dashboard for our gym. Most works great. Two questions;

  • The menu items (page buttons) are very buggy when used as a push button image only. Sometimes I need to click 10 times before a click is registered. When I change to switch pill it works much better, but I can’t use a gradient background for the dashboard since the pill needs a color. How do I best solve this?
  • It there a way to copy a page to a next page? All my spaces have the same lay-out and menu so copying each item valuable time. :slight_smile:
  • And I don’t see an option for current dim state for lights, correct? So I need to send the state with a flow?

still experimenting

playing ‘hardcore’ on a audio widgets for my homePods…

I mostly achieved my perfect audio widget : 3 different states = off, music or radio - and for the music it was not so hard to build a progress bar with the help of countdown app

everything of course is totally dynamic with the help of some flows and the DS send event…

I’m still looking for a way to pause and play a song… Apple TV&HomePod audio widget (@BasMilius ) does that, but I can’t find the solution - I don’t find the right entity to trigger, I only can stop the music…

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Anyone experiencing issues with Homey since using this app? I don’t think it’s related but since yesterday my Homey is having huge problems, going on and offline, devices being not reachable at bit random, it seems like it’s crashing or something like that. The only thing changing in the last 7 days is this app.

It started last evenening, rebooting fixed it (half), this morning my homey was completly offline again, then when I was in my car it suddenly came online (showing nothing in the app, no devices, no flows, no timeline), then it was offline. And now it is online again.

I still only have a small dashboard, with 2 flows for insights, one runs every minute, the other runs every 15 sec (I think), so that should not be an issue

Again: I think it’s not the app, but wondering just in case. I switched it off when my Homey was online again 2 mins ago, just to be sure.

edit: offline again, wtf

@Yann_Liqueur Is there something I can provide in the Apple TV and HomePod app to enable this or does it have to be something in this dashboard system?

Hello @BasMilius

I think it’s on your side. I test all the entities (or attribute or endpoints, I don’t know how to name it) none of then do pause / play. But your widget does it. Can you expose more endpoints ?

Thanks.