Thanks! I caught that off the pier in Savannah Georgia quite a few years ago. It was so funny because he was flat until I tried to take the hook out, then he started puffing up until he was full and weezing.
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I seem to have pretty bad luck with light groups showing the correct status when they are triggered by non-dashboard means. Really detracts from the experience. Is there a way to improve this without going through the whole Rube Goldberg method? I'd rather not have to add 10 more rules to do something fairly simple. I already had to convert my 10-15 total rules for my house into over 30-40 RM rules. WebCore was missing the button controller functionality, so that was a no-go.
Looks like they have root for newer HD 8 fire tablets. Unlocked boooader as well. Should open lots of options. Makes these tablets a great choice for the price.
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Is anyone using a raspberry pi hooked up to a touchscreen as a dashboard?
I'm a little confused. Any of the implementations already discussed could be implemented with an RPi and touchscreen since they are all webpages. However, using a tablet is a lot cheaper and easier to mount than an RPi w/ touchscreen. It would be cheaper to host your dashboard on the RPi and use a cheap android tablet as the dashboard device rather than the RPi touchscreen.
As @Ryan780 mentioned, you can display the native Hubitat Dashboard on any system that can run a modern web browser. A Raspberry Pi running Chromium should work fine.
If you would like to host a dashboard on your RPi, you might want to take a look at @kewashi's cool HousePanel Dashboard.
I do have a couple of Fire Tablets running fully kiosk browser but they arenāt reliable (sometimes the app crashes and restarts).
This location is remote so I would like to have a solution I can manage remotely (SSH/VNC into the RPI).
Does the native Hubitat dashboard support pins on a tile? So I can require a pin to disarm HSM?
HousePanel works great on a fire tablet with fully kiosk browser installed, with a rPI hosting the server part. The rPI can be ssh ād into if you forward port 22 to your PIās IP address. You can assign a username and password to each physical panel and each login can have a unique configuration in addition to the modest security layer the password adds.
If your fire tablet with fully kiosk is unstable something is amuck because my experience is this is quite stable.
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I think there is a problem with the bulb buttons relative to refresh. When I turn a bulb on using my android dashboard, it immediately responds. When I turn the bulb off, it does not respond until the next web page refresh cycle for the device!!!! I can update by pressing the browser's page refresh icon.
The same is NOT true for switches, plugs, etc. They update immediately both on and off.
Thanks for the info! And thanks again for previously helping me back in the day with ST (house panel on the Tesla web browser)
Is it possible to require a pin on a specific tile? Instead of the entire page I would like to have the option to require a pin to disarm HSM or run a mode
I remember you! Thanks for the reminder.
On the tile pin, yes - just about anything is possible... it is just code!
Depends on priorities and how many users request it. Right now the queue is pretty empty. here is my priority queue:
- finish direct push updates using web sockets
- Specify weather forecast location in the GUI
- create simple 2D skin mimicking AT
So I will add this to the list. Please describe the user experience you have in mind so I can scope out what would be involved.
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That would be awesome!
A widget that displays the current mode (Home/Away/Night) -> perhaps even add in color (Home -> Green, Away -> Red, Night -> Blue).
If the user taps away -> away mode will engage and the user has 30 seconds to exit.
If the user taps home -> a 4 digit pin would be required to run this mode as it disarms HSM
If the user taps night -> night mode will engage along.
Btw are Nest Cams and Unifi IP cams supported?
How did you integrate the Nest video?
This is already supported including the colors. Just add the HSM tile.
HousePanel won't have any influence over the delay to exit your home. You'll have to explore implementing a delayed alarm trigger upon HSM alarming. Several threads are on this forum that discuss how to do this.
Yes, I will add this to the dev queue
This is already supported. When you tap on the HSM tile it cycles through the different modes. You can write a rule tied to a virtual switch that goes straight to night mode and then style it in the editor to look like a HSM night shield.
IP cams are supported as long as you can write a script to pluck out a mp4 file onto your server. Then point one of the 4 video tiles to that file. That file will be updated whenever you click on it or you can set it to update every x seconds using the fast_timer option on the auth page.
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Which dashboard solution are you referring to here? The native hubitat one or House Panel?
HousePanel ... should move the discussion to the proper thread. Sorry about that.
No...that's okay. I just got REALLY excited (and confused) there for a second when you were talking about IP cameras being supported. I'm like, "HOW THE F*$# DID I MISS THAT ANNOUNCEMENT?!?!" LOL
I was halfway through my response when I realized you might be talking about house panel. 
These are just IPAD mini right? I am curious about how you routed your power supply.
The iWallDock has it built in.
https://www.iwalldock.com/collections/iwalldock-products
So, for $150-$200 and a huge hole in your wall, you can set it up too. 
