Included in Raspbian for some time. Use it. 
This is a good way to do it too, over the network. Works in Windows WSL, too.
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You would have to use a template node. I'm not great at those, though. Maybe someone else will chime in...
More dashboard stuff.
Result: (balcony door not opened yet, since I did the colors) Blue = closed, Red = Open
Visual:
Code: (shove a HE contact sensor in front of each of the flows). I have not copied my contact sensors.
Summary
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We (and by we I mean one of you guys smarter than me) need to figure out a way to show pieces of a Node Red Dashboard on a HE dashboard. Then you could have some of the charting like I posted earlier and what @mike just posted show up within the HE Dashboard shell. I know its easy to create a link but that's just not the same if I have to make an extra click.
Just changed it to behave the same way.... 
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I'm telling you...
This new revelation (on my part) on how the device node works changes how I do quite a number of things.
I've been doing some tests redoing (really undoing) some of the traps I put in my nodes to ensure no 'duplicate hubitat maker api messages', and it is really cleaning things up nicely!
Well, there is a way. Here is my hack....
I have the following customer driver:
iFrame Driver
preferences {
input("src", "text", title: "iFrame Url", required: true)
input ( name: 'pollInterval', type: 'enum', title: 'Update interval (in seconds)', options: ['10', '30', '60', '300'], required: true, displayDuringSetup: true, defaultValue: "60" )
}
metadata {
definition (name: "iFrame Tile", namespace: "srp", author: "srp") {
capability "Switch"
capability "Initialize"
attribute "myFrame", "text"
}
}
def on() {
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "on")
sendEvent(name: "myFrame", value: "<iframe src='${src}' width='500' height='300' frameborder='0'></iframe>")
}
def off() {
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "off")
}
def installed() {
initialize()
}
def initialize() {
updated()
}
def updated() {
configure()
}
def configure() {
unschedule()
def pollInt = settings["pollInterval"]?.toInteger()
// If change polling options in UI, may need to modify some of these cases:
switch (pollInt ?: 0) {
case 0:
break
case 1..59:
schedule("${Math.round(Math.random() * pollInt)}/${pollInt} * * ? * * *", "on")
break
case 60..259:
runEvery1Minute("on")
break
case 300..1800:
runEvery5Minutes("on")
break
default:
runEvery1Hour("on")
}
on()
}
In this driver, I can set a URL as source.
I hardcoded the width and height for my application, but you can change that in the code line here:
sendEvent(name: "myFrame", value: "<iframe src='${src}' width='500' height='300' frameborder='0'></iframe>")
just change the width and height
Then, on my dashboard, I have a tile that shows the attribute "myFrame".
It's not elegant but it works....
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I am with you. My head is 
... Going through my flows myself right now...
@dan.t just proved my point. Thank you.
I don't consider myself smart. I am lazy.... I will do anything for making my life easier... That's how I got hooked on home automation.....
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Lol...this exactly. Lazy breeds ingenuity. That's my motto.
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Thanks for the iFrame driver! That works great. I am not asking you to do it but I could modify your driver so that the width and height is in the preferences correct? Then, instead of having multiple device drivers with a device corresponding to each, I could have one device driver and a device corresponding to each size I want correct?
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Hi @mike, so how can I show temperature of few devices on dashboard? Which palette should I use?
You asked me by not asking me????? 
Here you go:
iFrame Driver
preferences {
input("src", "text", title: "iFrame Url", required: true)
input("width", "number", title: "iFrame width in pixel", required: true, default: 500)
input("height", "number", title: "iFrame height in pixel", required: true, default: 300)
input ( name: 'pollInterval', type: 'enum', title: 'Update interval (in seconds)', options: ['10', '30', '60', '300'], required: true, displayDuringSetup: true, defaultValue: "60" )
}
metadata {
definition (name: "iFrame Tile", namespace: "srp", author: "srp") {
capability "Switch"
capability "Initialize"
attribute "myFrame", "text"
}
}
def on() {
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "on")
sendEvent(name: "myFrame", value: "<iframe src='${src}' width='${width}' height='${height}' frameborder='0'></iframe>")
}
def off() {
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "off")
}
def installed() {
initialize()
}
def initialize() {
updated()
}
def updated() {
configure()
}
def configure() {
unschedule()
def pollInt = settings["pollInterval"]?.toInteger()
// If change polling options in UI, may need to modify some of these cases:
switch (pollInt ?: 0) {
case 0:
break
case 1..59:
schedule("${Math.round(Math.random() * pollInt)}/${pollInt} * * ? * * *", "on")
break
case 60..259:
runEvery1Minute("on")
break
case 300..1800:
runEvery5Minutes("on")
break
default:
runEvery1Hour("on")
}
on()
}
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NO!!! I am seriously going to figure this out. I am not looking!!!!
I modified your driver to make the tile 1000x1400 to accommodate my temperature chart so when i first created a device, the Current State myFrame was so big it pushed everything so far over you couldn't enter anything in the device page. Oops.
EDIT: I promise I didn't look first. 
One of these days I am going to break down and try to learn Groovy.
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Worst feeling in the world, you plug in the power and that activity light just never turns green. I had this happen not too long ago due to power failure. Had to totally rebuild my RPi that ran my DIYHue bridge, my Assistant Relay Server, my Cast-Web-API server, my Email/Text server, my Motiioneye Server, and my VPN server. It was WEEKS before i had everything rebuilt. I will definitely be picking up on of these!
I have to take some time to make an image backup again. But it takes like 2 hours to do it and I lose all that other stuff while it's running. lol
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Yeah, it definitely stinks!
Where I don't use rpi-clone, I manually back up over the network... Pretty easy to do from Windows WSL, mac terminal, or *nix machine - and it can be done online without taking the rpi down.
I do it manually, but could probably be scripted, too.
Example from Windows WSL2 backing up to D:\backup:
ssh user@ip "sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" | gzip | dd of=/mnt/d/backup/file.gz
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Huh....I didn't know you could do that while it was running. I always shut down and imaged on my desktop via Win32DiskImager.
mind blown!
It took me a while but I did finally find a method to shrink those images too...so I can save more than one without taking up ALL my storage space. It doesn't work all the time but I've had good luck with it.
Well, I now have a new project to do this week...this is wonderful!
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You know... To be slightly more technically correct I really should have said to do a "-t" on the ssh... Should work without it, but could fail in some scenarios if it isn't specified.
ssh -t user@ip "sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" | gzip | dd of=/mnt/d/backup/file.gz
I was going to automate with a bash script in my pi run on a cron entry anyway, so wouldn't have even noticed.
But do you really need pseudo -tty for that command? I wouldn't think that command would be affected but I am no ssh expert. 
