Legacy Dashboard: How to Add Variable Tiles

[Sebastien]

In .127, there’s some issues with variables in legacy dashboard:

1. When creating a new dashboard, no values can be selected:
   

   

2. When going to a dashboard with a variable tile and editing it, it shows as a « Device »:
   

   

3. When editing an existing dashboard’s variable tile, the « pick a variable » list doesn’t include all variables:
   

   

4. When changing a variable’s value on a dashboard, getting the following:
   

   

Variables available on this hub:

Maybe I’m being forgetful, but I don’t recall ever needing to add variables to a dashboard, like we do with devices… right?

[bertabcd1234]

I'm not able to reproduce the problems, except #2 which is somewhat of a longstanding oddity. You do need to authorize the variables in the app in the same way as devices, so I suspect that's what you're seeing in your two actual dashboards (and the differences between them).

[bertabcd1234]

@User7221

[+Add/–Remove] feature not offering Hub Variables for inclusion

You need to use the "old fashioned" method of authorizing them through the app, as I mentioned above (the Hubitat Dashboard child app for this dashboard).

@User7221

I've found it necessary to create a Variable Connector for this purpose.

I would not suggest this approach unless you really need one for an app that does not work with variables but can work with a device/connector of an appropriate type. Hubitat Dashboard is not one of those apps.

[Sebastien]

Yea, that is the issue. Been too long since I’ve done this!

[jtmpush18]

@bertabcd1234
I'm still having an issue with this.
I'm trying to add a Hub Variable to a particular dashboard. How do I go about selecting it (or authorizing it) for inclusion to the Dashboard on the following screen:

I still get the following screen:

[jtmpush18]

I got a totally different choose devices page:
(I'm sorry, if I just can't see the page where you get to choose the variables)

(It just says devices, and I don't get a choice of variables)

[jtmpush18]

Nope. This is from a Legacy Dashboard:

[jtmpush18]

I'm sorry for being obtuse.
When I click on the name of the Dashboard, it goes into the Dashboard itself.
That gives me a choice of Devices or Variable, but it says :

[jtmpush18]

For those who come after, and are puzzled by why I can't see on my machine the Hubitat Dashboard Configuration page, I would like to announce that it's due to the differences between Windows/Chrome and Linux/FireFox.
On my Linux/Firefox machine, I cannot see (and cannot go to) the Hubitat Dashboard Configuration screen.
Situation closed.