Homey dashboard crashes almost every day

[SunBeech]

As far as relevant: I have also such a light zone cluster in one of my dashboards. It covers 20 lights in 9 zones:

This setup does not cause issues on my iPad/iPhone. I do have to note that my dashboards are not opened continuously; I check them several times a day and open them only on those occasions.

[gerard_athom]

Just to double check, with the light zone widget, you mean the zone controls widget? Cause I have been looking at the zone variant of the lights widget. If that is the case, I have been looking into the wrong widget, I guess the naming is unlucky

[Mark1541]

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I mean indeeed zone light control see image @gerard_athom

[Mark1541]

@gerard_athom I see a new TestFlight version . Is the problem above already solved / did you find a fix?

[gerard_athom]

Unfortunately I haven’t had time to take a look at it. I am currently preoccupied with other tasks and responsibilities. I understand this is a very annoying issue and it is on the top of my list of things to do when I have some time between tasks. Don’t worry, I am not forgetting about it.

[Mark1541]

Alright

Ik Don’t want to chase you but was just curious

I’ll hear it and or if you need help

[Rob_G]

Hi All,

I too had my Homey dashboard app crashing on my Android Tab, several times a day. I read the comments in this thread that suggested it may be a specific widget.

I tried removing one widget I recently added, and… it seems to not crash anymore.
The widget I removed whas that of Homey Energy! I recently got myself an enegrgy dongle, so I added the Energy widget to my dashboard. Now I removed it and it seems the dasboard does not crash anymore.

UPDATE: I mentioned that it was the Energy widget that caused the problem. However, I did not use the Energy widget, but the Insights widget, with the energy dongle select as the source.

UPDATE 2: To check if the Insights (inzichten) widget was indeed the cause, I reinstalled it in my dashboard. And yes: within 30 minutes, the Homey app crashed again. I think this is “prove” that the Insights widget is buggy.

[Anders_Gregow]

I have a crash only like once a week, and are only using the Enhanced Device Widget app (multiple label widgets).

[Rob_G]

UPDATE 3: unfortunately, my dashboard crashed again, but it took a lot longer since I removed the insight widget. I’m now goin to try to remove another (Datavista) widget, to see how that influences the stability.

[SunBeech]

Are you perhaps using Homey’s own ‘Zone’ widget?

Another user was able to track down a similar issue (though on iOS/iPadOS) to this specific widget (see post above).

[Rob_G]

Hi @SunBeech Thanks for the info.
I don’t use the Zone widget. After my last crash, I removed a DataVista Meter widget. So far so good.

[Bernd_Gaykema]

This dashboard is almost rock solid:

This dashboard is dead within 1 hour:

[Rob_G]

Hi All, I did some extra testing and I might have found a clue.
at first, I suspected my Datavista Meter or my Insight widget. I removed them and everything was OK.
Then, I put both DV meter and Insight on the dashboard again. This time, I used another source (one of my temperature sensors). Result: no crashes, everything was fine.
This morning, I changed the source of my DV meter and Insight back to the energy value of my P1 dongle. Result: crash again!

So, I dare to conclude that it’s not the widget itself, but it has something to do with using the energy (dongle?) as the source…

@Bernd_Gaykema What happens if you change the widget sources on the dashboard that crashes, to something not related to energy?

[Bernd_Gaykema]

[quote=“Rob_G, post:33, topic:132614”]
@Bernd_Gaykema What happens if you change the widget sources on the dashboard that crashes, to something not related to energy?
[/quote]Difficult to say as it is all energy!

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Hi @Bernd_Gaykema, I’m also experiencing crashes, so it’s definitely my top priority. It’s been quiet from my side because I’m in the middle of two home renovations. This has meant I haven’t had the chance to work on DataVista yet. The renovations will continue for at least two more weeks, but I hope to find some time for DataVista in between, or definitely after those two weeks. I have some ideas to try and resolve this, but some guidance from @gerard_athom would be very welcome. However, I’ve…

I wait until Erik has had the time to look into it.

[Erikvl87]

For DataVista, please help me test this version to see if this resolves the crashes. Thank you!

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DataVista v0.10.3 is now available in the test channel! This version includes a switch to SVG rendering for the gauge and line chart widgets, replacing the previous Canvas-based approach. This change was made after @gerard_athom pointed out that heavy use of the Canvas API might cause crashes. I consider this change an experiment to see if this update resolves the dashboard crashes. Please let me know if you’re still experiencing crashes, or if the issue seems resolved. For those int…

[Bernd_Gaykema]

Since this new test version 0.10.3 I have no longer had any crashes.
Problem SOLVED for me (Android tablets and smart phone).

[Rob_G]

@Erikvl87
Just read you had a new version. For what it’s worth, I think I figured out what cause the widget to crash: I believe it crashes when it get’s fed with negative values. At first, I thought the energy dongle data had something to do with it, but then I setup a DataVista meter, fed with random negative and positive values. As soon as negative values were sent, the widget crashes.
Not sure ig this is something you found and fixed, but this is a reproduceable situation in the current version..

[Erikvl87]

Thanks Rob, currently I consider this a different issue as I am not expecting this to crash the complete dashboard, but just the widget. Could you reproduce the issue for me and directly after make a crash report for the app and share with me the identifier?

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