New Dashboards and Visual Rule Builder Are Here.... Yay!

Spectrum 128k, amiga 500 plus, amiga 1200, then adding a blizzard 1260 accel with 64m fast ram. I loved that machine, directory opus, action replay cart, personal paint etc.

Sigh.

/ off topic.

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I am sorry to say that I just deleted the new dashboards, and went back to my old ones.

The new ones worked well on my Mac, fair on iPad, but were unusable on my iPhone 15, because the tiles were not responsive enough to turn lights on and off, like my old dashboard tiles are. And when trying to hold them down to access dimmers, 95% of the time all it would do is select the text of the tile.

Also, the text was too small on the iPhone, to fit much into the buttons, which arrayed 3 across.
(ie "Wa Val" instead of "Water Valve"

I will start a new test dashboard, and play around with the defaults, so I can get them to start at 2 across and hopefully work better. But they really should work "out of the box" to be "family ready".

I am not trying to be too critical here - I am sure the Hubitat team will keep tweaking to make them better. I am posting this as constructive criticism, not a rant!

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I would like to see a way to automatically group tiles by assigned room.

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A post was split to a new topic: Questions about new Easy Dashboard

Too bad there's no dashboard tile... Then I could create a house dashboard containing all my room dashboards and each room dashboard could contain a tile to go back to the main dashboard... The navigation feature comes close but doesn't quite do the job.

hint: a new Helper Tile type... maybe could be more generic like a link tile

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I know they are trying to make the main dashboard the "home" page, but I too wish there we could have a dashboard to hold other dashboards. In the old version I made a "main" page for my iPad, one for my iPhone and one for my Mac and then used them accordingly to help with any layout issues.

Plus, I wish there was a toggle to hide/show the old dashboards inside then Easy Dashboard app.

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