Would be great if someone from the developer community could make a widget where you can add custom text. (layout / font / size / color / background image and transparency etc) and the possibility to include multiple variables within the text, that update live to the current value.
Would even be greater if there will be logo support as well, for example Font Awesome Icons or similar.
I really mis that in comparison to my Node Red dashboard.
Enhanced Device Widget has such widget, albeit not “fullblown” like you have in mind.
But you can always make feature requests @ the developer.
Just post your requests in the dedicated Enhanced Device Widget topic.
Sorry, writing a separate app for every wish is a bad idea. Because an app requires a minimum of 50 mb of memory and the number of apps is also limited. So it would be better if you send your request directly to the respective developer, because he is certainly willing to implement it as long as it is possible and feasible.
The opinion on “looks” is very personal (I made just a quick example in a few minutes) and also about the limited options I recommended you to contact the app developer Adrian:
By responding with “not usable” you’re saying “I don’t know yet how community widgets and apps evolve”.
Many devs are open to suggestions and ideas for improvement
That’s true, but it’s no different with apps. I wrote probably the smallest app (with less than 10 lines of code) in the Homey universe and was surprised to find that it consumes 50 mb of memory.
A dynamic approach would have been necessary long ago…
I know, this is a bit of a shameless plug , but I’ve made an app called DataVista that includes a label widget (plus other stuff like gauges, percentage bars and toggle switches). It’s probably not exactly what you’re after, but it might still be worth a look! You can find the docs here: Label | DataVista
(Don’t pay attention to the figures, as they are currently incorrect due to calculation changes)
For convinience I coded the HTML in an external program, en copied it in an advanced flow.
The logo’s change based on a simple bolean value from logic variables.
I saved some space in the header where I will add the current power consumption.
And this logo’s where quickly found on the web, but I will make better ones for my own in photoshop when I have some spare time.