Would love some improvement with energy monitoring as well. Smartthings does a good job at it. They provide more insights such as comparison to previous weeks or months, forecast, energy intensive days / hours and other energy usage analysis that are helpful.
Most of their charts for energy consumption is bar charts which is think is more relevant for energy.
I keep my Matter device with energy support in Smartthings until Homey release Matter 1.3 but Iām definitely looking forward for improvements from Homey in that area
On the topic of user permissions and dashboards, Emil described in the podcast an approach that will work on devices dedicated to running a single dashboard. However, this wonāt allow restricting what regular users can do when using their own Homey account on their own phone.
What if Athom instead added full-blown permission management but just on dashboards (not on devices, flows, etc) and added a user level that can only access dashboards (and of course only the dashboards they are allowed to see)? This would be not just a basic workaround for permission management, but an actual workable solution for most use cases.
About energy monitoring, it would be great to be able to add consumption data for specific points in time via the SDK. For example the energy provider in my city has no good possibility for renters to add a live energy reader, but it provides an API on which you can get the consumption in 15 minute intervals. BUT the data is only available with a 1-2 day delay.
Great episode, keep doing it itās very niceā¦ I have several questions / suggestions as an Apple devices user.
It would be greatly appreciated to have an action in Shortcuts that allows us to open a Dashboard directly. This way, we could create ābuttonsā to open Dashboards.
Also, there is a lack of a widget where accessories are displayed, as currently only Flows are supported. additionally : Lights, Activity, climate etc for room would be nice as a widget.
There are no options available for the Control Center (new iOS 18 version). It would be great to be able to add an accessory, a flow, or a Dashboard.
There is no āCriticalā notification from Homey where some brand (camera or security) have it.
In Shortcuts we are missing some actions such as get a return from a flow or a script or more simply turn on/off a light, this can be done but require a flows in Homey.
I think the best buy gruide is fantastic but I miss 1 crucial thing.
With protocol I can see whether a device uses bluethoot, zigbee, zwave or wifi.
But I canāt see any difference whether Homey connects via local wifi or via a cloud server.
Could you please make a distinction between cloud and wifi!
As you also mention in the podcast, a local connection usually has many advantages but now there is no distinction.
Hi everyone! Exciting news ā Episode 4 of the Homey Podcast will be recorded in just two weeks, and weāll have a special guest joining us at our Enschede office: @martijnpoppen!
With over 20 Homey Apps under his belt, Martijn will be sharing insights from his experience developing for Homey.
If you have questions for Martijn or are curious about what itās like to develop on the Homey platform, drop them here! Weād love to include them in the episode.
My Question, is there an error log or logbook in Homey?
For example. My Zehnder (WTW) Flows stopped working. When i found out, that it stopped working, i got an error when executing the flows. the Zehnder cards were missing and i had to replace them. But why is the error not in a logbook, or as a push message? Now i had to find out myself.
@Doekse I have a question for the podcast. The advanced flow editor has been live for a while now, and itās amazing to work with. However, I wonder if there will be any new additions to the advanced flow editor, like a āwait untilā card, which would make flows even smarter. For example, being able to create a flow that turns on the washing machine but waits until the door is closed to start the wash cycle. I get the feeling that the whole Athom team is now focused solely on dashboards and that the standard/advanced flow editor is only being maintained to keep it functional.
Good point! Indeed, a washing machine wonāt start without the door being closed, so that example might not be the most relevant. A better alternative could be a pump: you could set up a flow where the āwait untilā card waits until the water level drops below a certain level, then automatically activates the pump to refill the tank. This might better show the value of the āwait untilā card.
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