Yeah that looks good man! If you are only doing it for yourself and only for a particular device for a particular set of tiles, then it's totally do-able with CSS and wouldn't be too difficult. If you wanted to create a skin that people could use everywhere, then the colored icons would make it a large task as you'd have to create an SVG/image for every tile type, every state.
At smartly we have a skin in development that will allow us to completely design the tiles, including images as icons (among other things) but that is a little ways off for public use.
To get back to answering your question, yes it's possible.
That's great! I hadn't seen smartly before and I'll play around with it once I've moved over a few devices from Wink.
For a few of the more advanced questions I'm wondering if any of this is possible given this is html:
use more of the screen for the dashboard? I posted a screenshot of my phone (not 7" tablet) in landscape as an example.. just a single device added for now but that title bar takes up quite a bit of precious vertical space.
touch/press effects? As a mobile developer I notice these things more I imagine.. but I like how a button press has a down 'selection' state which gives some immediate feedback where you're touching.. not a big deal but just something i didn't see in the Hubitat dashboard
keep the screen awake during the day? If not that's ok since I know there's Android apps like Tasker that can do this
remove the status bar.. there's an Android app to do that too so not necessary but just what I'm looking to create
Search for "Fully Kiosk". I am pretty sure it can do most of what you want (except the dynamic button press) when opening dashboards in a browser instead of app.
Unfortunately, my ancient tablets can't use it so I am not 100% sure.
There's an Android app called "Wallpanel" that I use for all my wall tablets. Much cleaner than the browser... sort of "kiosk" like. Works with any browser based automation hub. Sleep, keep awake, camera, no title bar, etc.
We have that in the works. I'll see if there is some CSS I can come up with to help for now though. I'll post to the smartly release thread and will tag you
FYI I have a set of 4 dashboards designed for my Fire HD 8 wall-mounted tablets (rooted, running Lineage OS 14 and Fully Kiosk Browser), and then I have a dashboard designed for my phone. All done with the built-in dashboard app. The phone dashboard allows control of lights and Hubitat Safety Monitor, and viewing of my security cameras, but none of the weather displays I put on my tablets.
The tablet dashboards have dashboard links among themselves, but the phone does not. They are separate use cases for me. I just got the link to the dashboard for my phone and put a shortcut to just that one on my home screen.
That's the way to do it! The entire reason I bought an HD8, rooted and lineage'd it was because the version of webkit installed on fireos had artifacts when using FKB. I'm also spelcheck on xda Kai@xkd just finished a new build of los16 the other week that has been working without issues for me. Pie on an HD8, it's a beautiful thing.
It's been a struggle, but looks like he finally killed that file descriptor bug. I'm running a build from 3/5/20. It looks like he has newer nightlies though. Give it a try!
I'm surprised they haven't cracked the mustang. I love my karnak and my douglas!
Thanks for all the alternative product suggestions, but what I did not understand was why the CSS that handles the tiles does not also proportionally adjust the little icons and the text in the stock "Dashboard"code on all platforms. This would seem a fairly basic thing to do, or maybe I am being naive thinking that one would take the trouble to keep the implementation "clean CSS".
I am speaking of the reaction of a dashboard with that exact config change. It is a mess, hence the many suggestions to abandon that for 3rd party products, which are less of a hopeless mess.
Ihave 4brand new fire 8’s that I
I want to root and do exactly what you have done. Any suggestions?
Glenn.
By the way I just got my HE on Friday. Have my Iris plugins and a wall switch devices added. Next comes my several Wemo In way switches. Then one to osram/sylvania down lights. Been doing this for a while.
Thanks.
Check carefully on xda-developers.com for whether you can root the your Fire 8's. The latest versions of the 2018 Fire 8 (karnak) could NOT be rooted. The change happened around Nov 2019. Motherboards created before then worked, after then and they couldn't be rooted (at least that was the case a year ago).
I'm not sure what the latest Fire 8 hardware is (2020). It might not be rootable.
I like the Koala mount but it seems a bit expensive for a couple pieces of plastic. They work great, though. I have them covering a wall box with 12V DC step-down to 3A USB charger:
