Hubitat has the option to require a PIN before loading a dashboard screen.
If you want to have per tile PIN protection and a PIN entry keypad that pops up to protect selected tiles, check out SharpTools.io which is a dashboard system that natively integrates with Hubitat
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This is great! Thanks a lot for the quick reply. I’ll have a look
Hey JOsh, I just had a quick look at SharpTools and it look like it could work exactly as I wanted. Just a quick question though, I understand that Sharptools required an active connection. SO what happens if I setup a tile with a passcode and that I lose my internet connection when I try to disable the alarm. Would it still work? Thanks again for your help!
That's correct that SharpTools requires an active connection to Hubitat.
Any actions, like changing HSM status require a connection in the current design, so they would not work without a connection.
A number of people use SharpTools and have fallback Hubitat dashboards which they can use if they have an extended internet outage. 
How did you get your video to be live?
Dashboards, meh. The only use I have for one is when I'm away, and even then mostly only to verify that the house shutdown as expected. If you have to resort to a dashboard for day to day room operation, you've already failed. Everything should work via automation or voice.
Yeah ok sorry, this is something of a sh*t post, but it is the goal I have for my house.
Getting near Christmas. Bah humbug.........
Yeah but jsut because you have a dashboard doesnt mean you are using it for control. Sometimes I just like to see the overall status.
There's no one in my house that would use a Dashboard.
I have a few to monitor my system, especially the battery devices. Every few days I will grab an iPad, open my "Motion Sensors" dashboard and walk a pattern through the house. I'll watch all the motion sensors go active and those that don't get their battery replaced.
Yes, I would love it if the system would prevent me from getting exercise twice a week. But given the battery tech, Li Ion, and their falloff curve, it's not likely in my lifetime. 
Similarly I have a dashboard for the Door and Window Sensors, which is physically more beneficial to my exercise regime, since I have to open and close doors and windows. Upper and lower body vs only lower for the motions!! 
My family is going to stick around with dashboard for a long time. It's probably next to impossible to automate things with our schedule.
I am in a process of mounting my 17.5" tablet on the wall right now. Will probably run Sharptools.io, HE dashboard and raincalendar.
This is my thoughts exactly! I just implemented homevridge so I can reduce my investment in echo devices throughout the house. Everyone carries their phone with them so Siri is a great voice option for areas of the house where Alexa isn’t in.
As for dashboards I do use (2) wall mount fire tablets to display weather, news, calendar and also main house functions like disable HSM, auto start cars, quick view of door security, etc.
If you have to walk over to the wall to use the panel you could have just kept the old switches and saved yourself a lot of time and money. If it's actually less trouble to light the room manually than automatically, what's the point?
Not using the panel for initiating any automation. Look at it more as an info hub.
@bill ...another use case: I primarily use my dashboards for checking the security / status of my home at a glance.
I could tell from across the room that if there's something orange on the dashboard then something was left open or unlocked. And the security camera feeds give me a quick idea of what's going on outside.
In the mornings, I'll frequently take a quick glance at the dashboard as I walk past to get an idea of the weather or time.
And sometimes it's nice to be able to quickly adjust something if the automations aren't quite right. For example, sometimes I'll make a quick tweak to the thermostat or change the mode which triggers a set of automations.
To your point, I have automations that take care of things where they can, but there are cases where being able to see things or quickly take actions on the dashboard is nice.
Wow, why the heck would my comment be flagged and removed?
I honestly think controlling a smart home with a phone or dashboard is a worse user experience than analog switches. It's nearly always faster to flip a wall switch than pull out a phone and browse to the correct screen then hit the right button. Dedicated dashboards have a lot of the same UI drawbacks.
To each his own I guess, but I think its a mistake to give new users the idea that an ozzy style dashboard is the way to go. I don't see why that's worthy of censorship.
I think the issue is that no one is forcing you or others to use dashboards that aren’t interested in doing so.
So why post (repeatedly) in a thread devoted to dashboard use about why dashboards are inferior and unworthy of being used?
Dashboard users will use dashboards in whatever way works for them (us). And everyone can live and let live.
Sure, I suppose.
I've been messing around with automation since... crestron gear was popular 20 years ago, literally the Ozzy days. One of the things that's never seemed to have happened in this space is the adoption of best practices. It's still quite experimental and everyone is doing their own thing their own way.
Ultimately I think that's an impediment to adoption. For your mom to adopt home automation there has to be a defined UI and interface that she can count on to be similar everywhere. The light switch is such an interface, the roll your own panel isn't.
In any event, whatever your position on it is, the way these sorts of best practices are hashed out is by being discussed and debated on forums like this one.
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