Homey Dashboards | Megathread

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Homey Dashboards is finally here!

Our team has truly outdone itself and shipped this grand new addition to the Homey app for iOS & Android. With many built-in widgets, an innovative column-based design that works great on both tablets and phones, a Widgets SDK for the Homey Developer Community and the same goodness for your homescreen — I’m super proud of Homey Dashboards.

Creating your first Dashboard

Phone
On phones, navigate to More (...) → Dashboards to create your first dashboards.

Alternatively, you can edit your homescreen by scrolling down and tapping ‘Customize’. This is a special homescreen dashboards that’s only accessible to you, and is saved on your phone.

Tablet
On tablets, navigate to Dashboards to create your first dashboards.

Alternatively, you can edit your homescreen by scrolling down and tapping ‘Customize’. This is a special homescreen dashboards that’s only accessible to you, and is saved on your tablet.

Pricing

Homey Dashboards is included with Homey Pro (Early 2023) and Homey Cloud (Free and Premium).

For Homey Pro (2016 — 2019) customers, Homey Dashboards will be available for a one-time fee of €25, similar to Advanced Flow. During the public beta, Homey Dashboards can be tested for free (as long as there’s room in iOS TestFlight).

App Widgets

This is for the Homey Community Developers, and it’s where the fun really starts. We’ve designed a Widgets SDK, that’s part of the Homey Apps SDK. Essentially, your Homey app can embed one or more widgets that users can choose from. Every widget is a small HTML/CSS/JS website with their own Web API.

Ready to get started to create your first widget? Start by reading the documentation »

To show what’s possible, here’s a widget for HUUM that I made last Friday, in just a few hours. Creating widgets is really that simple & powerful.

Hall of Fame

View all live apps with widgets »

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Homey Dashboards work locally?
Homey Dashboards is part of the Homey app for iOS/Android, which works locally. So yes, if your device is part of the same Wi-Fi network as Homey Pro, Homey Dashboards does not need internet itself. But it doesn’t only work locally. You can view your dashboards from anywhere, and from any device!

Why do I have to pay for Homey Dashboards as Homey Pro (2016—2019) owner?
We believe that the previous generation Homey Pro is still powerful, and we just don’t like e-waste. However, we also need to put extra effort in supporting an older operating system, and that costs money. The easy way was to only publish Homey Dashboards on the current generation devices, but we feel we and the industry can do better than that, so we try to set an example.

Will Homey Dashboards be coming to the Homey Web App?
At this time we’d rather spend our time on building new features, than doing the same work again for web. Homey Dashboards is more performant on mobile devices, and we did expect some people to grab an old tablet from a drawer and expect it to work. If we made Homey Dashboards for web first, it simply wouldn’t have been as performant as it is now.

Bugs & Problems

If you encounter any issue, please let us know here in the thread!

If you see your issue already mentioned, please tap the -icon of that post. Our team will be monitoring this thread and tries to fix everything as soon as possible.

And if everything works great, or you just want to say thanks, leave a to this post to let our team know you love Homey Dashboards!