@melih Well yeah, I have the Dynamic dashboard with some device tiles but I cant edit the dynamic dashboard, can I?
I now again created a new dashboard to see if I could find some predefined tiles and it all seemed that I would have to create them from scratch but then I noticed that when searching for tiles the default place to search was set to “My” and of course I could not see anything. But as I changed this to “public” a whole new world of possibilities opened up
It stil feels very advanced and complicated to set up for the average user, maybe we just need to be educated a bit how to get started.
Could you make a youtube video about the general workflow to set up a simple dashboard?
Advanced customization of tiles could be a topic for another video.
Indeed it is. We had to first design the platform in full, before we crated easy to use flows…Now we are working on the easy to use flows…
There is an “Import” capability where you can take a file (attached…pls remove the .zip extension…its a json file) and import it into dashboard… its the Thermostat Tile with full “States”…You can then edit it to your liking.
We are working on ways to make downloading of public tiles and editing them easier etc…
It will be getting better literally every week now that we have the majority of the platform.
In the HVAC example, there is a nice gradient colour background. Looking at the json, this seems to use a per-cell background option that is not exposed in the dashboard editor. Is that correct?
It appears that the Ezlo Dashboard will eventually have two modes of operation, similar to how Home Remote does today.
Basic dashboard (out of the box) using Ezlo’s designed default device tile templates. This basic dashboard will have some basic customisations, like themes and menu structure etc.
Advanced dashboard where the user creates his own tiles from scratch and creates his own dashboard pages and layouts.
I spent months learning Home Remote and designing my own device tiles and getting my dashboard pages and menu structures as I wanted them.
However in Home Remote using the default device tiles, you could very quickly put together a working dashboard page(s).
Ideally we’d like the basic out of the box default dashboard to work like Imperihome in its simple to use way etc.
Or if the user so chooses, to create his own tiles and pages from scratch using the advanced tools and features.
I will look at the Ezlo Dashboard again, but I am yet to be convinced that the Ezlo Dashboard creation tools can be used to create a functioning dashboard from scratch that looks half decent.
@melih has kindly stated they can send you one if required.
Options are good.
The more 3rd party Devs that also integrate into the new Ezlo hubs the better. It will sell more Ezlo hubs at the end of the day.
Users want choice, choice to either use the inbuilt native Meshbot rules engine and Ezlo Dashboard. Or if they wish to use a 3rd party rules engine and dashboard app.
I’ve used Vera hubs for over a decade and in all that time I have always used 3rd party integrations. Mainly because we had too.
Perphaps Ezlo will eventually provide good enough inbuilt tools, but options will make the Ezlo hubs better for everyone.
I exactly agree with this statement and this is how Home Remote works. All the supplied default tile template files, which are xaml files, can be copied and then edited.
This is how I created all my device tiles based off the default ones.
It sounds like we will also be able to do this in the Ezlo Dashboard. However last time I tried to use a default tile and edit it, it didn’t go so well.
Users want options, some users will be happy to use the default out of the box dashboard and tiles where as other users will want to create something more advanced and more customised from scratch.
The whole system is very alpha and very frustrating at the moment, but I believe they are generally heading in the right direction. Time will tell.
I think for the dynamic dashboard and their own tiles, they have used some hard coded things that the users cannot also do in the tile / dashboard editors.
This is why I cannot make my tiles the same size as theirs I think.
One thing that is a bit confusing also is that when I add a tile to my Dashboard I can link it to a device in my Vera Hub (I can even see the current value for the device) but this tile does not actually get any communication with the Vera Device (Value does not update and controlling does not work).
Linked Devices from the EzloPlus works as expected.
I am guessing that this is not yet supported but will be very soon?
Edit: I started to realize that my latest additions to this thread is beginning to get a bit of topic as the thread is actually about “Home Remote Integration”. Sorry, please move this post to a relevant thread if needed.
