Here is my Dashboard and also my first post
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Because of the great help, tips and trics i found on this community i feel like i owe it to the community to share my work.
I don’t really have any flows installed yet and it is still work in progress. The main idea was to have an always on display to show my electricity usage and to control my AC units.
obviously with all the possibilities this system has it is easy to link new items.
so here goes.
The sad thing is that Homey does not sell a pre configured dashboard, or there is no web based dashboard. so i had to be creative and this is the first thing where the community helped me with.
i did not want to plug a tablet in to a wall socket for the rest of its days because that is very bad for the battery.
I bought a raspberry PI 5 with 8gb of ram. and a 10.1” HD screen on amazon. the screen is powered through the raspberry PI5’s USB3.0 port. so i only needed 1 power cord. i have hidden the power cord behind the door thing ( i dont know the word for it in english ).
i made a wooden case for the display and the raspberry PI. i also found a button which i was able to connect to turn the screen on and off. i made some ventilation holes in the wooden case.
i Programmed the raspberry PI with Konstakangs lineage OS android 16. then i installed the google play store, through which i was able to install the Homey app.
with the FULLY KIOSK i am able to keep the screen on.
My Dashboard shows the weather, my AC units, some electricity sockets and a lamp. obviously the main thing is the power usage. then my RING alarm and on the right my ring doorbell.
I am extremely happy with how this worked out. also all the community apps are great.
it seems that new users are only able to post one picture. i will try to add more pictures.
