Widget Forge – Flow-driven dashboard widgets for Homey

Hello SunBeech,

Thank you for your feedback.

I’ll check the colour assignment for the dark grey separator option. The behaviour you describe is not intended, so the wrong shade may currently be assigned to that setting. Thanks for reporting it.

The title sizes of the Big Data Block and the Styled List are currently not identical because the two widgets use different layouts. I have already added this to my to-do list and intend to align them in a future update.

A separate setting for the title size, such as Large, Normal, and Small, also sounds useful. I’ll look into whether this can be added as part of the same update.

Thanks for your follow-up.

I have an additional question. Currently I am using Homey’s standard widget for displaying/monitoring some variables, that I want to change manually sometimes.

I would like to use your app. If I understand it correctly, your app currently only displays values: there is no option to change/update values, like variables. Is such functionality something that you plan to add in a future version?

Hello SunBeech,

Widget Forge is currently designed as a reporting and display app. It is entirely tag-driven: every value shown in a widget comes from a Homey tag selected in the widget settings. The app currently does not provide controls for changing variables or writing values back to Homey.

The existing version includes a few helper Flow cards, but these are also available in my other app, Flow Gadgets, together with many more powerful cards for processing and preparing values. In a future version, I therefore intend to make the duplicated helper cards in Widget Forge obsolete and recommend using Flow Gadgets for that part instead.

Interactive elements such as buttons, switches, sliders or editable values would require a considerably different and more complex widget architecture. They may be considered at some point in the future, but they are not currently planned.

Since a Homey dashboard can contain widgets from different apps, Widget Forge can still be used for reporting alongside other widgets that provide interactive controls.

Thanks for your explanation and I understand your considerations :+1:.
I’ll continue using my current setup for making direct changes to variables.