# Homey Dashboards | Megathread

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963>\
**Category:** Dashboards\
**Created:** [September 30, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963 "2024-09-30T11:21:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 12

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**Author:** ![aoeriksen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/aoeriksen/32/55883_2.png) [@aoeriksen](https://community.homey.app/u/aoeriksen)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/233 "2024-10-10T11:08:28Z")

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Hi, is it possible to make a widget that displays a calender and can import data from iCal?

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**Author:** ![SteampunkLolcat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/steampunklolcat/32/90974_2.png) [@SteampunkLolcat](https://community.homey.app/u/SteampunkLolcat)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/234 "2024-10-10T11:31:27Z")

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Will it be possible to set a background image for the entire dashboard in the future?

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**Author:** ![Harwin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/harwin/32/115447_2.png) [@Harwin](https://community.homey.app/u/Harwin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/235 "2024-10-10T11:34:51Z")

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@Marcel_Visser what build number is the Mobile App version?

`More` → `settings` → `general` → scroll down to: `app` → `version`

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**Author:** ![Marcel\_Visser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_visser/32/66024_2.png) [@Marcel\_Visser](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Visser)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/236 "2024-10-10T12:27:55Z")

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I’m using 9.0.0.1566

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**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/237 "2024-10-10T13:58:41Z")

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You can add a web widget (URL). So perhaps link to a Google calendar.

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**Author:** ![staeff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/staeff/32/79712_2.png) [@staeff](https://community.homey.app/u/staeff)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/238 "2024-10-10T14:06:03Z")

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> **Day-dependent widgets** → I think generally targeting a dashboard with flows would be really powerful. We will give it some thought.

@Harwin At least from my point of view changing the shown widget through a flow seems a bit counter intuitive and makes discoverability and management harder. Couldn’t you reuse (at least some of) the already existing AND cards in the widget settings ([as described here](https://community.homey.app/t/request-conditionally-show-widgets-e-g-by-time-or-user-presence/117335))?

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**Author:** ![Harwin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/harwin/32/115447_2.png) [@Harwin](https://community.homey.app/u/Harwin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/239 "2024-10-10T14:06:43Z")

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@Marcel_Visser Thank you, the columns improvements update will be working from 9.0.0.1568+, it seemed this update wasn’t shipped to Android users yet. Hopefully it will be available soon.

Please let me know once you have the latest version if you see 3 columns when you hold your tablet horizontal.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Bittner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_bittner/32/16698_2.png) [@Peter\_Bittner](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Bittner)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/240 "2024-10-10T22:32:19Z")

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Could you answer this for me please.

[https://community.homey.app/t/showcase-your-dashboard/116965/46?u=peter\_bittner](https://community.homey.app/t/showcase-your-dashboard/116965/46)

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**Author:** ![Mikl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mikl/32/23226_2.png) [@Mikl](https://community.homey.app/u/Mikl)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/241 "2024-10-10T22:53:01Z")

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Hello @Harwin !  
What do you think of my idea of resizing tiles?  
As a reminder :

> [@Homey Dashboards — Public Beta Megathread](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-public-beta-megathread/116963/151):
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> Hello Homey Team ! I have a suggestion for improvement: The possibility of resizing tiles, in order to display the details of the sensors, a bit like web applications. Here’s a projection (just for the idea): [propal] This allows on the one hand to display the details, but also to bring a richer visual style to the dashboard, by varying the styles and sizes. My example is in 1x2 size, but it’s possible to imagine a 1x3, or even 1x1.5 display. I hope you will take this request into account…

I see that my proposal has more than 22 likes at the moment.  
I’m curious to have your feedback 😊

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**Author:** ![Jiri\_Pech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jiri_pech/32/48190_2.png) [@Jiri\_Pech](https://community.homey.app/u/Jiri_Pech)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/242 "2024-10-11T06:26:32Z")

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Hello,

I’m trying to add widgets to my app that would display both the current energy price for the given hour and the price index, as well as a widget that would show a bar chart of energy prices for the whole day.

However, I keep running into an issue where the API provides data to the frontend, but it fails because Homey is unavailable. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/b/cbe21d48a1c2be641ea0168e0e8b21f430b2112b.png)

```auto
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Electricity Price Widget</title>
    <style>
        body {
            font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
            margin: 0;
            padding: 10px;
            display: flex;
            flex-direction: column;
            align-items: center;
            justify-content: center;
            height: 100vh;
            background-color: #1f2937;
            color: #ffffff;
        }
        #container {
            text-align: center;
            background-color: #ffffff;
            color: #333333;
            padding: 20px;
            border-radius: 10px;
            width: 80%;
            max-width: 300px;
        }
        h2 {
            margin-bottom: 10px;
        }
        #status {
            font-size: 0.8rem;
            margin-bottom: 10px;
            color: #666666;
        }
        #price {
            font-size: 24px;
            font-weight: bold;
            margin-bottom: 10px;
        }
        #index {
            display: flex;
            align-items: center;
            justify-content: center;
        }
        #indexDot {
            width: 12px;
            height: 12px;
            border-radius: 50%;
            margin-right: 5px;
        }
        #error {
            color: red;
            margin-top: 10px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <h2>Actual Spot Price</h2>
        <div id="status">Initializing...</div>
        <div id="price">Loading...</div>
        <div id="index">
            <div id="indexDot"></div>
            <span id="indexText">Loading...</span>
        </div>
        <div id="error"></div>
    </div>
    <script>
        console.log('Script execution started');

        function updateUI(message, error = false) {
            console.log(error ? 'Error:' : 'Status update:', message);
            document.getElementById('status').textContent = message;
            if (error) {
                document.getElementById('error').textContent = message;
            }
        }

        function updateData() {
            console.log('updateData function called');
            updateUI('Updating data...');
            
            if (typeof Homey === 'undefined') {
                console.error('Homey object is not available in updateData');
                updateUI('Error: Homey not available', true);
                return;
            }

            console.log('Calling Homey.api for spot price');
            Homey.api('GET', '/spot-price', (err, result) => {
                console.log('Homey.api callback received');
                if (err) {
                    console.error('Error fetching spot price:', err);
                    updateUI('Error fetching spot price: ' + JSON.stringify(err), true);
                    return;
                }
                console.log('Received data from API:', result);
                if (result && result.currentSpotPrice !== undefined && result.currentSpotIndex !== undefined) {
                    console.log('Updating UI with new data');
                    document.getElementById('price').textContent = `${result.currentSpotPrice.toFixed(2)} CZK`;
                    document.getElementById('indexText').textContent = result.currentSpotIndex;

                    const indexColors = {
                        low: '#22c55e',
                        medium: '#9ca3af',
                        high: '#ef4444',
                        unknown: '#fbbf24'
                    };
                    const dotColor = indexColors[result.currentSpotIndex] || indexColors.unknown;
                    console.log('Setting index dot color to:', dotColor);
                    document.getElementById('indexDot').style.backgroundColor = dotColor;
                    updateUI('Data updated successfully');
                } else {
                    console.error('Unexpected data format received');
                    updateUI('Received invalid data format: ' + JSON.stringify(result), true);
                }
            });
        }

        function onHomeyReady(Homey) {
            console.log('onHomeyReady function called');
            updateUI('Homey is ready, initializing widget');
            
            console.log('Homey object properties:');
            for (let prop in Homey) {
                console.log(`- ${prop}: ${typeof Homey[prop]}`);
            }

            updateData();
            console.log('Setting interval for updateData');
            setInterval(updateData, 60 * 60 * 1000); // Update every hour
            
            console.log('Calling Homey.ready()');
            Homey.ready();
        }

        // This function will be called by Homey when it's ready
        window.onHomeyReady = onHomeyReady;

        // Attempt to fetch data immediately
        console.log('Attempting immediate data fetch');
        setTimeout(updateData, 1000); // Delay by 1 second to ensure Homey is available

        console.log('Script execution completed');
    </script>
</body>
</html>

```

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**Author:** ![Harwin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/harwin/32/115447_2.png) [@Harwin](https://community.homey.app/u/Harwin)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/243 "2024-10-11T07:50:54Z")

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Hi @Mikl ,

You put some effort in there and I have to be honest, it does look nice! ✨

Dashboards doesn’t use a fixed size of columns, because of this it there is a few problems to be solved first. Even if they are solved I don’t think it will be a priority soon, we have other features which bring more value to Dashboards at the moment 🙂

**To give you an idea about the problems we face:**

- Depending on the size of the tablet / phone users will have 3 or 4 devices next to each other.
- What happens if a users wants 2 devices of which each will have a doubled size column? What if this was created on a tablet which shows 4 devices on a row and then the same dashboard is shown on a tablet with 3 devices in a row?
- If the 1th device tile is double, can the 2nd be double as well while having 3 devices in a row.
- If we allow larger tiles, the next request is gonna be: a want to decide which sensor I see. For that to work we also need to build new interfaces.
- How are you going to decide which device tile gets on which position if they have different sizes?
- What about the re-ordering the devices so they are exactly where you want them to be, while having a variable amount of devices on a row.

The idea is great and luckily there are more ways to solve your problem. At the end all you want is the possibility to show more sensors information right?

Don’t let this discourage you to share more awesome ideas. This is a good source of inspiration to bring out more cool features for Dashboards! 💪

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**Author:** ![LundinGBG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lundingbg/32/79677_2.png) [@LundinGBG](https://community.homey.app/u/LundinGBG)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/244 "2024-10-11T08:15:48Z")

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This was weird. I’m the beta tester. But I can only see Dashbords in my Android app on my Galaxy phone, but not in the Android app in the tablet?? Both is latest app versions and same account.

 ![20241011_091105](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/6/16e16dca5d3a2c11c10aa95d8767ff8435a442c1.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot_20241011_091024_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/4/5403328232a85d16bcb945d7e46dec55094d6f00.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/245 "2024-10-11T08:44:48Z")

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> [@Jiri\_Pech](#):
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

`Homey` is not a global variable, it’s an argument passed to `onHomeyReady`, so it only exists inside that function.

You can do something like this:

```auto
function onHomeyReady(Homey) {
  function updateData() {
    // here, `Homey` will be accessible
  }
  updateData();
  console.log('Setting interval for updateData');
  setInterval(updateData, 60 * 60 * 1000); // Update every hour
  ...
}

```

Or pass it explicitly as an argument to your timers:

```auto
function updateData(Homey) {
  ...
}

function onHomeyReady(Homey) {
  ...
  updateData(Homey);
  setInterval(updateData, 60 * 60 * 1000, Homey);
  ...
}

```

But you can’t run `updateData()` _before_ `onHomeyReady` has been called.

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**Author:** ![Jiri\_Pech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jiri_pech/32/48190_2.png) [@Jiri\_Pech](https://community.homey.app/u/Jiri_Pech)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/246 "2024-10-11T11:00:27Z")

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Thanks a lot 🙂 I am new to FE development :).

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**Author:** ![Rocky\_Lonigro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocky_lonigro/32/80350_2.png) [@Rocky\_Lonigro](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocky_Lonigro)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/247 "2024-10-11T14:14:08Z")

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@Harwin Maybe I missed it, did you already answer about this problem:  
Tablet should have a specific user to solve following problems:

- view only dashboards
- not count for sleep (last sleep first wake up and so on…)
- not count for being home (last to go out and so on… )

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**Author:** ![Jaden\_Hertz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jaden_hertz/32/79000_2.png) [@Jaden\_Hertz](https://community.homey.app/u/Jaden_Hertz)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/248 "2024-10-11T14:47:21Z")

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What an awesome addition! This will be epic! I have recently moved from SmartThings to Homey. I no longer use SmartThings because they had just become too unstable for me. In comes my discovery of Homey, and I am IMPRESSED.

I have a feature request to add into this Dashboard setup. I had used SharpTools with Smartthings for the dashboard, and the ability to create complex automations. Granted SharpTools works with Homey, i like the idea of Homey dashboards because then the dashboards work when internet goes down.

Anyway… on to my feature request… Is there a way (like in SharpTools) to create a password protected click of a button. For example, if i want to turn on my fireplace from a Homey dashboard, can i be prompted to enter a password to turn it on? This prevents my kids from controlling the fireplace and/or other devices i have.

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**Author:** ![Henk\_Renting](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henk_renting/32/87634_2.png) [@Henk\_Renting](https://community.homey.app/u/Henk_Renting)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/249 "2024-10-11T15:18:56Z")

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> [@Jaden\_Hertz](#):
>
> Is there a way (like in SharpTools) to create a password protected click of a button.

Great idea. But can imagine it won’t be on top of the roadmap at Athom.

What you can try if you are using Android for your dashboard:  
SmartDroid can authenticate a user.  
So: when a certain (virtual) button or flow is activated, send a trigger to SmartDroid on the same tablet (you might want to create a separate user for this). A popup appears and when SmartDroid has authenticated the user it write a variable. When this variable is set, let Macrodroid send a trigger back to Homey to turn your fireplace on.

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**Author:** ![Sen-Sai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sen-sai/32/13164_2.png) [@Sen-Sai](https://community.homey.app/u/Sen-Sai)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/250 "2024-10-11T15:22:43Z")

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I would like to say to this is that most Resizable problems are not problems. But, like SharpTools, having the option to resize would be great! Basically you would create columns within a column. If on one device it doesn’t fit, you still have the option of resizing it to a way that looks great on your dashboard, instead of empty spaces.

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**Author:** ![Marcel\_Visser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_visser/32/66024_2.png) [@Marcel\_Visser](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Visser)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/251 "2024-10-11T16:52:45Z")

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How long should this normally take? Still no update…

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**Author:** ![deejayreissue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/deejayreissue/32/81912_2.png) [@deejayreissue](https://community.homey.app/u/deejayreissue)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-dashboards-megathread/116963/252 "2024-10-11T18:08:22Z")

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I joined on my phone, but now cant join to test it on my tablet as the beta is full.

Classic.

Cant really test it then.

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