Customizable tiles

[mavrrick58]

With the addition of the new "Helper Tile" object I wanted to make a few suggestions to further enhance it.

First would it be possible to enable the ability to simply have it link to a URL. This could be useful in a variety of ways. Personally I would see this being able to allow a different way for navigation. Though I like the look of the current navigation method the lack of scrolling means on devices like phones with very limited horizontal pixels it is very difficult to use. Simply allowing a tile to call a URL could help alleviate that.

Second could it be possible to have a tile link to a mjpeg or jpg file. This would allow someone to use such a tile to load camera feeds. This could also be used to do something like load a weather map.

[bobbyD]

@mavrrick58

enable the ability to simply have it link to a URL.

A different tile type is in development that would allow to open hyperlinks.

@mavrrick58

Second could it be possible to have a tile link to a mjpeg or jpg file.

This is currently possible. Check this post: 💡 Configuring EZ Dashboard for Mobile use with separate areas

[rlithgow1]

@mavrrick58

econd could it be possible to have a tile link to a mjpeg or jpg file. This would allow someone to use such a tile to load camera feeds. This could also be used to do something like load a weather map.

[mavrrick58]

@bobbyD

This is currently possible. Check this post: Configuring EZ Dashboard for Mobile use with separate areas

That is fantastic to see but to round it off it would be good if you could tap/click on the tile and expand it to full screen so you could get a better look at what the image is.

@bobbyD

A different tile type is in development that would allow to open hyperlinks.

I can't wait for it. I tried te virtual URL device which I guess isn't it.

[bobbyD]

@mavrrick58

could tap/click on the tile and expand it to full screen

@rlithgow1 beat you at requesting that feature

[mavrrick58]

what device is being used to generate that weather tile?

Think I understand what the problem is, but need to do some research as the driver I have doesn't appear to be the right one.

[bobbyD]

@mavrrick58

what device is being used to generate that weather tile?

Here is a post that might help:

Introducing the weather and clock tiles for the Easy Dashboard

We are happy to announce the addition of two new tiles to the Easy Dashboard's growing portfolio. The first is the simple clock tile that can now be added along with the HSM and Mode tiles from the main Settings page: [image] [image] The second tile is the weather tile using the OpenWeatherMap driver. [image] A. If you have the OpenWeatherMap driver installed and set up, then you can add the Weather tile by searching for the weather device name, or by looking for the WeatherSensors in t…

[mavrrick58]

I found that after posting. It seems I was using a different driver similarly named so I fixed that and have the tile now.

Thanks for the quick responses