I wholeheartedly agree. Except for one thing: the dashboard works wonders on a tablet. Should’ve been there from the beginning. People want to control their domotic system from a tablet mounted on the wall and that’s just the feature the dashboards provide.
It would’ve been nicer to just provide a clean HTML implementation and let it run from homey itself, not unlike e.g. homey cornelisse’s dashboard (just unified and better configurable). That would’ve made things platform independent…
Dashboards should definitely be available through web app or URL. I have 23 inch touchscreen monitors build in my wall (door).
I also would like to be able to display insights and status on non-touch monitors as they are bigger and cheaper than a tablet.
Just want to add to the frustration with schizophrenic state of the Homey features.
It’s really frustrating, that some functionality is present on one platform and not the other. I understand why, but Athom should either choose which one is going to be the main one or do all base functionality in all. I understand that some things are easier (possible) on mobile and some are on web. But forcing people to have PC and mobile device present every time they want to change something is horrible experience.
As for “Web app usage is less than 20% of all users”, that can have multiple explanations. Maybe users are not willing to use it, because it is lacking (these days) basic home automation functionality - dashboards, energy monitoring. You can open up so many devices by introducing web based dashboards, that can be shown f.e. on wall displays. It seems to me, that the whole industry is shifting towards these devices, because (as is my use-case), placing expensive tablet on the wall is just not an option. On the other hand displays under 100$ powered natively 24/7 (not damaging internal battery) and showing kiosk mode are already widely available.
Furthermore those 20% of users are presumably power users, that helped Athom build this product by developing all the apps that attract more new customers mostly for free. The community (those 20% of users) help better your product and should be listened to more than the average user that knows nothing about home automation and isn’t missing something that he doesn’t know is possible. Those 20% help everyday on this very community board with questions and solve problems that others have for free, so Homey can be a better platform for everyone. I understand priorities (I’m a developer myself that lived through several huge acquisitions), but helping your power users means helping your company.
Can you please at least publicly share a roadmap @Emile@Doekse , so people can know what are those incredible features that halt the work on what is needed by the community, by already existing customers? I think that would be very helpful.
. + 1 here as well. It makes no sense having to use two devices to get the full Homey experience. I accept that one device might run a lighter interface, but the current setup is just confusing. Some features only available in web (advanced flows), and some features only available in mobile (dashboards, energy…). No ”one” device can give you the full Homey experience.