Tips for dashboard with Calendar, ToDo, Radio and all-in-one Music control

Dashboards
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Hi,

I want to start with a wallmounted tablet with a dashboard. I prefer the default homey dashboard because it is plain and simple but stylish, but I found some restrictions.

  • All in one music player/control widget. I want to have one widget that shows what is playing currently at on of my (google nest audio/google chromecast) devices, and able to control the sound, and when playing a speaker group, control per speaker. In stead of having a widget for each separate speaker.

  • A widget to select from a list of radio stations (would be nice if I can select a top 3 or 5 only, or some quick buttons to a few), and play that radio station on a selected speaker (group). I know there is a radio widget, but it has one widget per station, and I do not want to have e.g. 3 -5 of them on the dashboard.

  • I want to have agenda widget showing items of today (e.g. from google calendar).

  • I want to have a todo list (preferable connected/from Apple reminders).

  • Travel time to work (would be nice if I can get travel time to next calendar appointment)

Do you have any tip on how to achieve this? Or tips to better dashboard systems that can be used with homey?

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Hi Michel,

For the first 2 points, you can consider using “sub” dashboards

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To which you can add a link back to the “main" dash f.i.

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Point 3: A Google calender howto: Homey Dashboards | Megathread - #365 by Peter_Kawa

But with help from the iCalCalendar app you can show events using notifications, like on a text variable widget, Enhanced Device Widget (example), DataVista app (example).

Point 5: with use of the HERE app, you can create a virtual device showing the travel time and cam image with a map f.i. But you can also use the notification possibilities shown at Point 3.

I use Home Assistant; Howto (and howto install):