That’s curious regarding sharptools reconnecting. I also tried sharptools for a while and didn’t have that issue. It’s purely speculation but I wonder whether you maybe have some other perhaps network related issue that’s causing that and maybe also your HomeKit issue. (I’ve never had a problem with that disconnecting either, including when using the homey experiment rather than homekitty, albeit I’ve not used the experiment since moving to the 2023 Pro).
In the end for me I had two key reasons for sticking with viz designed for now:
- I don’t want my dashboard dependent on my internet connection either for latency or reliability reasons
- Viz designer gives complete freedom of layout. Despite sharptools having lots of configurability it’s still tile based and for me I prefer a completely free form design
By the way, if you do end up using viz designer with local api, it’s worth knowing that if you have multiple elements on a page using the same end point (with different json paths) then it is smart enough to make only a single api request on each refresh). The ability to build an API on honey for the dashboard further adds to the complete flexibility of that approach.
