Homey Dashboards — Megathread

I was surprised that a guest user can see and use my Dashboards. This is great! I have encountered one issue, however.

A guest user sees a “+Favorite Moods” link instead of the Favorite Moods list in my widget. When the guest clicks on that text, the Favorite Moods selection screen appears, Moods can be selected, reordered, and removed. There is no save button. The Back button returns to the Dashboard without saving the selections.

Hi mate, how did you get an overview tile for the number of doors open?
Can you explain?
Much appreciated.

Hi Paulo,

Thanks. You can find it here, as import-able device + flow.

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Awesome!!! Thanks

@Harwin
My app widget uses realtime events to push changed data from the app/devices to the widget. But after some time, these messaging is stopped.
The Homey app stays active on the tablet (no energy saving), the screen goes off and is switched on via flow and Tasker app.
How can I keep realtime events active? Is it needed to poll the app from time to time with api calls? Is this re-establishing the realtime (websocket?) connection?

I can see this situation also in Homey app on the phone (main screen). When re-opening the app, the app widgets are in an old state and it seems they are nut refreshed. It needs a hard close of Homey app. On next start, the main screen is rebuild and widget are loaded again.

I put de widget kalender on mij dashboard but i get de massage no widget found what is the problem hou can i solved this.

any devs succeeded to show svgs in the widget? mine shows as a broken image and cant fix it on any way

Yes, but the svg must be placed in puplic folder.
Else you have to read a capability svg with the Homey URL if that is what you want.
But that’s something for Slack or Developer channel.

It probably will be posted in this topic, by the developer!

A bit of self-promotion here, but if you’re into gauges, you’ll definitely want to check out what I’m working on!

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Has anyone had any issue with the dashboard locking up? I run it on an iPad Pro 24 hours a day but at least once a day I need to close the App and re open it as it becomes unresponsive.

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We’ve got some electrifying news! Say hello to the new :zap: Energy Usage Widget! :zap:

The Energy Usage widget shows live information about your P1 Meter, Energy Plugs and Solar Panels.
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Another widget we added is the much requested Zone Controls Widget :tada: :

In addition we made many fixes and small improvements , including a fix for hanging loading screens.

Release
You will find the update in the latest Mobile App release: 9.0.0.1618 which is currently being released in Beta.

Thank you :pray:
A big thank you to everyone in this community for sharing your valuable feedback for Homey Dashboards – it truly makes a difference!

Enjoy the new Widgets and let us know what you think!

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Nice update!


Little bug tho: it seems like the bottom of the current usage is cut off!

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Got it, found out you’re using a smaller font-size in which it got cut off. This will be fixed next release :ok_hand: Thank you for reporting!

cc. @RonnyW

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Cool new features! I’ve seen that clicking on the new zone activity widget opens up the default zone activity window. Any way for developers to deep-link to these detailed views as well? I’ve launched a zone activity widget 2 weeks ago and it would be awesome if I could implement sort of the same behavior.

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What defines the colors of the energy widget?
For me it seems that green is zero, and blue is anything above.
In your example you have yellow, is that just for solar panels?

Would be nice to be able to set parameters for colors myself.
F.I. red color if above a certain number.

Hi @Erikvl87, currently there is no way to deep-link to a part of the mobile app.

From a developer perspective it could be nice to have deep-linking. However by supporting deep-linking to certain views we limit the apps innovation and freedom because from then on we are required to keep the deep-linked views in order not to break any App Widgets.

I past your request forward :+1: , but like i said, I doubt if we should support it :slight_smile:

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Those colors are defined:

P1 Meters:

  • Blue is energy usage (for example 500w)
  • Green is energy export (for example -500w)

Solar panels

  • Yellow is energy production (for example 500w)
  • Blue is energy usage (for example -500w)

Unfortunately custom colors in energy charts is not something we are currently aiming for because it does not fit in the bigger picture :slight_smile:

Ok, I see. But 0w usage, is shown as green on my devices. They don’t export anything. Is this by design?

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0w with the green color is by design. :leaves:

Nature will be happy :butterfly: when everything is turned off :relieved:

Ok, perfect. One request:
Maybe a desimal or two? That way the blue color makes sense when a devices usage is 0,X Watts