[Request] Web interface

Dashboards
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It’s a bit inconsistent strategy :slight_smile: While “advanced flow” functions are web only, but at the same time dashboards are mobile only. No place in Homey rules it all, you always have to be split between UI apps. I guess the 20% of users are folks who need the “advanced flow” or bigger “Insights” graphs constantly.
Being a developer myself, I see a lot possibilities for re-usage of components alike the UIX from Insights into Dashboards, and vice-versa. In ideal case they should have the same look-n-feel, as a function. A good showcase is: a User can stack up several graphs at Insights in one graph, while I can’t do this at Dashboards, while the UIX of the graph looks the same. When you account for a HomeScreen - it comes even more obvious, that UIX between all three parts of the systems is the same: Dashboards, Homescreen, and Insights. This would “kill all the birds with one stone”, if one UIX-component would rule them all.

It’s what comes first here, a chicken or an egg. I’m guessing that when dashboards become available on the web, more users will adopt them. I enjoy a bigger screen when doing major configurations on my Homey Pro. I wish I could do most of it through the Web, while the final touches and daily usage itself is through a Tablet or Mobile device.

The dream scenario would be to have unique links for specific Dashboards and the possibility to save graphs from Insights - so they are easily accessible from any type of device through a web browser, computer, tablet, or mobile. This will give a new boost to Homey’s popularity and provoke the creation of new apps/dashboards/metrics/control panels.

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Is is already the case.

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Hm, how can I access it? Isn’t the whole discussion here about Dashboard components are not being made for Web, and you can’t access it yet through the Web interface technically …
at least this is what @Emile said:

Web app … Unfortunately the codebase is not very compatible, even though we use React Native & React.

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ah, yes, that I know, thank you!
Yet we stepped out slightly from the original discussion line: the thread has a tag on Dashboards primarily, and this trick doesn’t work, unfortunately. We, as a Homey Users, have to bounce between Native App and Web, as the functions/possibilities differ.

Dashboards work only on Mobile (Native app), while Insights and Advanced flows are accessible from Web interface only. Ideally, we need a place that rules them all.