Announcement: HADashboard v2 Beta!

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

They are in the docs. LOL

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

Uh oh … they shouldn’t be!

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

Ok, I’ll quit trying to make them work for now. LOL

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

Can you allow for state_text for input_sliders so we can see the values and not just - and +?

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

Can you allow for a string format or something to account for sensors where the value returned is a date or time and needs to be reformatted. For example, I really don’t want the miliseconds since the last boot.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

@turboc

Can you allow for state_text for input_sliders so we can see the values and not just - and +?

Mine shows the value.

slider:
    widget_type: input_slider
    entity: input_slider.bedroom_brightness
    title: Test Slider
    increment: 1
    units: units

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

@turboc

Can you allow for a string format or something to account for sensors where the value returned is a date or time and needs to be reformatted. For example, I really don’t want the miliseconds since the last boot.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just format the sensor in HA? Then there wouldn’t be all that extra overhead added on the dash side.

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

Not working for me.

dsp1hp_black:
    widget_type: input_slider
    value_style: "font-size: 100%;"
    entity: input_slider.dsp1hp_black
    title: dsp1hp black
    increment: 1
    units: units

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

Then I have to figure out how to do templates in HA.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Try commenting out the value style and see if it shows then. Let me know - I’m checking in to see how you make out.

@turboc

Then I have to figure out how to do templates in HA.

I know. Been there. Will help you if I can though!

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Here’s an answer to your Last Boot sensor; check this thread:

How to edit sensor printout

I made a template sensor based on that same sensor to make it more readable. Under sensor: I have the following code: - platform: template sensors: since_last_boot_templated: value_template: >- {%- set slb = states.sensor.since_last_boot.state.split(' ') -%} {%- set count = slb | length -%} {%- set hms = slb[count - 1] -%} {%- set hms_trimmed = hms.split('.')[0] -%} {%- set hms_split = hms_trimmed.split(':') -%} {%- set hours = hms_sp…

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

@turboc

Can we setup a list of locations that we consider equivalent to home?

I’ll see if I can get that into beta 2.

[Dayve67 (Dave)]

Not sure what I have done wrong. Can anyone help? This is what I get when starting.

2017-03-11 10:22:25.257715 INFO AppDaemon Version 2.0.0beta1 starting
2017-03-11 10:22:30.580364 WARNING ‘elevation’ directive is deprecated, please remove
2017-03-11 10:22:30.581240 WARNING ‘latitude’ directive is deprecated, please remove
2017-03-11 10:22:30.584547 WARNING ‘longitude’ directive is deprecated, please remove
2017-03-11 10:22:30.584941 WARNING ‘time_zone’ directive is deprecated, please remove
/home/debian/appdaemon_dashboard/appdaemon/conf/apps
2017-03-11 10:22:31.006635 INFO Got initial state
2017-03-11 10:22:31.009030 INFO Loading Module: /home/debian/appdaemon_dashboard/appdaemon/conf/apps/hello.py
2017-03-11 10:22:31.012906 INFO Loading Object hello_world using class HelloWorld from module hello
2017-03-11 10:22:31.156960 INFO hello_world: Hello from AppDaemon
2017-03-11 10:22:31.161112 INFO hello_world: You are now ready to run Apps!
2017-03-11 10:22:31.162055 INFO App initialization complete
2017-03-11 10:22:31.288667 INFO Connected to Home Assistant 0.39.3

[Bit-River]

I’m guessing your appdaemon.cfg file looks a bit like this:

[AppDaemon]
ha_url = http://192.168.1.4:8123
ha_key =
logfile = STDOUT
errorfile = STDERR
threads = 10
latitude = 50.7274
longitude = 6.8762
elevation = 21.82
time_zone = Europe/Dublin

dash_dir = /home/hass/appdaemon_dashboard/appdaemon/conf/dashboards

dash_url = http://192.168.1.40:5050

# Apps
[hello_world]
module = hello
class = HelloWorld

If it does, change it so it looks like this:

#latitude = 50.7274
#longitude = 6.8762
#elevation = 21.82
#time_zone = Europe/Dublin

And make sure your dash_dir, and dash_url lines are before the # Apps section, as in the example above.

That should do it.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

@aimc - should consider removing those in the next update since they are deprecated anyway.

[Dayve67 (Dave)]

Thanks. Working great. Now I can have fun. lol

[Bit-River]

Here’s my latest try at a Portrait mode for the R Pi touchscreen.

The settings that worked for me:

title: R Pi Portrait Panel
widget_dimensions: [118, 118]
widget_margins: [7, 7]
columns: 5

I resized the images I liked to 640 x 1138, and found most of them via https://www.reddit.com/r/Verticalwallpapers/

It’s such a pleasure using this new way of doing things

I’m starting to feel sorry for the main HA view.

There wouldn’t, by any chance, be a clever person working on how to change the background to a poster of currently playing Kodi file?

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

@Bit-River

There wouldn’t, by any chance, be a clever person working on how to change the background to a poster of currently playing Kodi file?

Not yet but it’s certainly possible - adding to list

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

@Bit-River

It’s such a pleasure using this new way of doing things

Glad you think so - me too! I just rebuilt a load of my dashboards and it was pretty easy using the new layout vs HADashboard v1.

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

@rpitera

should consider removing those in the next update since they are deprecated anyway.

Yes, I removed them already, they will no longer be there in beta 2.