Is there any way to display a web page within a dashboard tile? I can see how to display a jpg image, and I can see how to create a link within a tile, but neither of these is what I really want.
The reason for asking is that my weather station has the ability to generate "embeddable" web pages such as the following, and I'd like to be able to get this report up on my dashboard.
Maybe you can find a local web-to-jpg program that can convert the html output and serve a jpeg to your dashboard, setting it to update every hour or so.
It's a workaround, but hey. It shoulf work somewhat
Interesting - thank you - it might well do the job, but rather expensive. I think I'll just keep my fingers crossed that this might end up being a supported feature of HE.
Well thanks to a reply posted to a related question in another part of the forum, I've now been able to achieve what I want. I'll share the solution in case it's a help to others.
The answer is a simple driver (below), and then to create a virtual switch, assign that driver to it, and use an "attribute" tile to display the web frame.
Here's the driver as I have it - your frame call goes in the "sendEvent" line where marked.
Heh, heh! I did try to post the whole thing, but the forum input editor snipped out the relevant bits. Here's a screenshot instead. The link is to a public page, but unless the weather in the wilds of Scotland is of interest to you, you'll want to replace it with something of your own!
Here's a modified version that allows you to set the src url for the iFrame in the driver details, so you can use more than one virtual device with difference configurations. Also adapts to the size of the tile, without having to be statically set.
Take a look at the RadarTile from HubiGraph. There are some others that do similar solutions. It does some similar things. But in short, you have to specify an attribute with an iframe that has a height, width and overflow set properly... There are also so css tricks to remove titles, etc.