# \[REQUEST\] Allow sensor metrics on device icons **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Tags:** webapp\ **Created:** [January 22, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598 "2021-01-22T12:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JeeHaa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jeehaa/32/29849_2.png) [@JeeHaa](https://community.homey.app/u/JeeHaa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/1 "2021-01-22T12:17:01Z")
Now great work is being done on the Web App (transforming to a builtin dashboard) I would like to suggest a feature that has been requested many times before, and something I was personally missing when I recently switched over to Homey. In too many cases, we need to open each device to get to even basic metrics. I think it would be great to have an option to display base metrics on device icons. Things like Temperature, Humidity, Luminance, Last Activity ( 3s ago, 13m ago, 1h ago), Dim level could be shown for a better overview. Similar thread: > [@Select you own icon for a device](https://community.homey.app/t/select-you-own-icon-for-a-device/41473): > > It would be a great feature to be able to select your own icon for a device. Especially for switches, sockets, sensors, etc. it would help a lot to be able to select an icon from a library to show a visual that displays the attached device/appliance or for instance a door or a window. This would, in my opinion, improve the usability of the app’s a lot as you don’t have to read, but in a room of the house you have an immediate visual display if the items connected and available. Especially for r… ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/2 "2021-01-22T12:19:06Z")
I would love that too! This will bring us closer to an actual dashboard… Hope your assumption is right about getting closer to it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/3 "2021-01-22T14:06:16Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Andres\_Moerland](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/andres_moerland/32/33756_2.png) [@Andres\_Moerland](https://community.homey.app/u/Andres_Moerland)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/4 "2021-01-22T15:02:11Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Shakesbeard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/shakesbeard/32/15112_2.png) [@Shakesbeard](https://community.homey.app/u/Shakesbeard)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/5 "2021-01-22T16:21:45Z")
+20 😃 Well, I understand that the space on the icon is limited but it would be very awesome if we could at least define up to two device capability values to be shown (as seen in a certain other dashboard app for Homey) Or even better, let apps be able to implement a default behaviour. So we as developers could even cycle through values. Prolly something to think and discuss about. The capabilities would need an additional flag, so we could define which values make sense to be displayed. As some apps also have hidden capabilities which would not make sense to be displayed. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Menther](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/max_menther/32/31562_2.png) [@Max\_Menther](https://community.homey.app/u/Max_Menther)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/6 "2021-01-23T20:37:09Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![JPe4619](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jpe4619/32/9017_2.png) [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/7 "2021-01-23T23:26:54Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Glenn\_Seegers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/glenn_seegers/32/8353_2.png) [@Glenn\_Seegers](https://community.homey.app/u/Glenn_Seegers)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/8 "2021-01-24T08:33:50Z")
+100 ---
**Author:** ![Russell\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/russell_s/32/45779_2.png) [@Russell\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/Russell_S)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/9 "2021-01-26T14:49:07Z")
“ + 1000 “ ---
**Author:** ![Henri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henri/32/18225_2.png) [@Henri](https://community.homey.app/u/Henri)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/10 "2021-01-27T06:02:00Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Torrfura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/torrfura/32/139_2.png) [@Torrfura](https://community.homey.app/u/Torrfura)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/11 "2021-01-27T11:10:36Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Deadlifter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/deadlifter/32/32142_2.png) [@Deadlifter](https://community.homey.app/u/Deadlifter)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/12 "2021-01-27T15:45:28Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Michal\_Tkacik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/michal_tkacik/32/16416_2.png) [@Michal\_Tkacik](https://community.homey.app/u/Michal_Tkacik)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/13 "2021-01-27T19:24:19Z")
+1 also custom icons would be great and in the future even simple room layout where we can place our items ---
**Author:** ![Ziglar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ziglar/32/1009_2.png) [@Ziglar](https://community.homey.app/u/Ziglar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/14 "2021-01-28T08:04:54Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Johan\_Gilbertsson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/johan_gilbertsson/32/16719_2.png) [@Johan\_Gilbertsson](https://community.homey.app/u/Johan_Gilbertsson)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/15 "2021-01-28T19:55:13Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Christian13](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christian13/32/27232_2.png) [@Christian13](https://community.homey.app/u/Christian13)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/16 "2021-01-29T05:54:51Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![DirkdeDraak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkdedraak/32/8620_2.png) [@DirkdeDraak](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkdeDraak)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/17 "2021-01-29T11:59:59Z")
Absolute +1, while this will make the dashboard/overview in the app much more useful. ---
**Author:** ![Bart\_Driessen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bart_driessen/32/34457_2.png) [@Bart\_Driessen](https://community.homey.app/u/Bart_Driessen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/18 "2021-01-29T14:27:11Z")
+1 and preferably customizable ---
**Author:** ![Viking42](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/viking42/32/12687_2.png) [@Viking42](https://community.homey.app/u/Viking42)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/19 "2021-01-30T12:02:27Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Quin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/quin/32/18386_2.png) [@Quin](https://community.homey.app/u/Quin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598/20 "2021-01-31T00:07:19Z")
I think that is possible already, though not customizable. The Daikin app gives icons like this one mentioning status (via color) and temperature.! Perhaps something to consider for the app developers? ![Screenshot_20210131-010252_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/e/0e29ba5008c60b443d77b2b824e7f437a6eb7a06.jpeg) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/request-allow-sensor-metrics-on-device-icons/41598.md?page=2)