None of the home control apps allow you to create widgets based on a room. Attached is an example I drew up.
I bought an HP Slate 21 Pro to create a home automation interface on. I don’t like the dashboards in the apps I’ve tried (AuthomationHD, HomeBuddy, and Imperihome). I cannot fit enough stuff on one dashboard, I want to be able to glance at it and see the status of everything. Additionally, I may want my “dashboard” to show my Sonos controller, weather radar, IP cameras, etc. So, creating my HA interface with widgets is the perfect way to get what I want.
What you see in my image is what I want to create. I can do this using Tasker/Autovera/Zooper. But, it’s extremely tedious from what I can see. All of these HA apps have the capability to do widgets, so why not create widgets that are for a per room basis like the one below that’s conscious of screen real estate, simple, and provides the info required. Since you cannot do sliders in widgets, control of the devices would:
- Turn on and off when clicking on the light bulb icon
- If the “slider” to the right was clicked, it would just bring up an android dialog in the middle of the screen with the slider in it.
Thoughts? Could one of the authors of any of the HA apps implement something like this? Doing it all through tasker/autovera/zooper is going to be terribly time consuming unless anyone has any tricks.
Has anyone thought about this? I haven’t had much movement on it. I’ve got a kitchen one working as a test, but it’s not auto-updating the status via AutoVera and Zooper yet. Pretty sure it’s possible, but man, setting up each load is very tedious. It takes about 20 mins of effort to set up each load and add it to the Zooper widget, not including the auto-update of the widget. I’ve got over 50 lighting loads, and about 30 security sensors, this is going to take forever.
There has to be a better way to do this. Note that I’m doing this on a HP Slate 21 Pro, so I’ve got huge screen real estate to make this. It wouldn’t make sense on a phone, but certainly does on a tablet.
[quote=“signal15, post:2, topic:185243”]Has anyone thought about this? I haven’t had much movement on it. I’ve got a kitchen one working as a test, but it’s not auto-updating the status via AutoVera and Zooper yet. Pretty sure it’s possible, but man, setting up each load is very tedious. It takes about 20 mins of effort to set up each load and add it to the Zooper widget, not including the auto-update of the widget. I’ve got over 50 lighting loads, and about 30 security sensors, this is going to take forever.
There has to be a better way to do this. Note that I’m doing this on a HP Slate 21 Pro, so I’ve got huge screen real estate to make this. It wouldn’t make sense on a phone, but certainly does on a tablet.[/quote]
It is tedious and I use Tasker/AutoVera/AutoNotification. It just takes time and open software to have community involvement otherwise your at the mercy of the app company or a developer who for the most part does it for free.
So one lesson I learned in life for what I like to do with technology is I should have learned programming. But you know how that goes…
I have what you are talking about and I use the Vera web app on a mobile browser. Works great and the control is easier to use. I’m hoping that the new beta that MCV is working on will support this outright.